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Halls, TN

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Overview


Halls is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,049 people and just one neighborhood, Halls is the 215th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Halls, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 58.04% of Halls’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Halls is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Halls who work in office and administrative support (8.62%), management occupations (7.21%), and personal care services (5.02%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Halls has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Halls a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, Halls does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Halls is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.14% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Halls in 2022 was $25,850, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,400 for a family of four. However, Halls contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Halls is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Halls home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Halls residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Halls include Irish, German, English, European, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Halls is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 56.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.7% of 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 Halls are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.8% 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, 56.9% 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 18.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.5%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Halls, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.1%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (51.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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