Finger is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 275 people and two associated neighborhoods, Finger is the 368th largest community in Tennessee.
A relatively large number of people in Finger telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.40% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Finger’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Finger 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. Finger has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Finger than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Finger may be for you.
Being a small city, Finger does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Finger with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.09% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Finger in 2022 was $20,163, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,652 for a family of four. However, Finger contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Finger is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Finger home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Finger residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Finger include German, Irish, African, European, and English.
The most common language spoken in Finger is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.