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Monroe, TN

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Overview


Monroe is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,708 people and just one neighborhood, Monroe is the 239th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Monroe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.65% of the Monroe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Monroe is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroe who work in management occupations (12.42%), healthcare (9.01%), and maintenance occupations (8.39%).

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

One downside of living in Monroe is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Monroe, the average commute to work is 33.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Monroe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Monroe are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.15% of adults in Monroe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Monroe in 2022 was $38,210, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,840 for a family of four. However, Monroe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Monroe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monroe residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Monroe include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Portuguese.

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

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 Monroe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.

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 94.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Monroe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.3% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.6% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (29.0%), and 4.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Monroe, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Irish 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 (41.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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.


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