Monroe is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,729 people and just one neighborhood, Monroe is the 239th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Monroe is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.28% of the Monroe workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Monroe is a town of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroe who work in healthcare (10.86%), management occupations (9.33%), and office and administrative support (9.02%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.86% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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 33.46 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Monroe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Monroe is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.97% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Monroe in 2022 was $33,276, 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 $133,104 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, Polish, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Monroe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 22.0% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.5% of America.
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 low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.0% 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, 39.1% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Monroe, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (5.3%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.3%) 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.