Cornersville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,283 people and just one neighborhood, Cornersville is the 267th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cornersville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.69% of the Cornersville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cornersville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cornersville who work in office and administrative support (20.00%), healthcare (6.76%), and management occupations (4.69%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cornersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cornersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Cornersville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.16 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Cornersville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Cornersville rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.41% of adults 25 and older in Cornersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Cornersville in 2022 was $33,120, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,480 for a family of four. However, Cornersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cornersville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.61% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cornersville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cornersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cornersville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cornersville include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and French.
The most common language spoken in Cornersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.7% of America.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cornersville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Cornersville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.3%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.