Morrison is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 771 people and just one neighborhood, Morrison is the 308th largest community in Tennessee.
Morrison is a blue-collar town, with 43.89% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Morrison is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morrison who work in office and administrative support (11.60%), law enforcement and fire fighting (5.64%), and healthcare (5.64%).
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!) Morrison 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. Morrison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Morrison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Morrison may be for you.
Being a small town, Morrison does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Morrison is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.10% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Morrison in 2022 was $20,107, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,428 for a family of four. However, Morrison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Morrison also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 47.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Morrison is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Morrison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morrison residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Morrison also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.75% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Morrison include English, Italian, Irish, German, and Canadian.
The most common language spoken in Morrison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research reveals that 90.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Slovak ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Slovak ancestry.
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 Morrison are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.3% 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, 31.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.7%), and 19.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
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 Morrison, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 (47.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.0%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.