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Does real estate here hold its value?
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Counce is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 316 people and just one neighborhood, Counce is the 361st largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Counce is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 84.73% of the Counce workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Counce is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Counce who work in office and administrative support (5.42%), management occupations (3.45%), and business and financial occupations (3.45%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Counce is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Counce has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Counce has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Counce than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Counce may be for you.
Counce is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Counce, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 96.55% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Counce does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Counce with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.52% of adults in Counce have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Counce in 2022 was $34,525, 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 $138,100 for a family of four.
Counce is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Counce home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Counce residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Counce include English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Counce is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Greek.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Counce, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.1% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 45.2%, which is higher than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of all American neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Counce are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.0% 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, 34.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Counce, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.4%).
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
