Eva is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 239 people and just one neighborhood, Eva is the 375th largest community in Tennessee.
When you are in Eva, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 0.00% of Eva’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Eva is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eva who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).
Eva’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Eva 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. Eva has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Eva than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Eva may be for you.
One of the benefits of Eva is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 0.00 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Eva doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Eva has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Eva in 2022 was $27,505, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,020 for a family of four.
The people who call Eva home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Eva residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Eva include English, Scottish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Eva is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
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 Eva, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 Eva are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.8% 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, 37.8% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.7%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% 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 Eva, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.1%) 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 (11.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.