Nunnelly is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,742 people and just one neighborhood, Nunnelly is the 188th largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Nunnelly is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Nunnelly is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nunnelly who work in management occupations (18.31%), healthcare (14.00%), and office and administrative support (12.39%).
Also of interest is that Nunnelly has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Nunnelly telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.48% 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.
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!) Nunnelly 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. Nunnelly has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nunnelly than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nunnelly may be for you.
In Nunnelly, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.00 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Nunnelly is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Nunnelly has a very low overall level of education: only 8.89% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Nunnelly in 2022 was $17,803, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $71,212 for a family of four. However, Nunnelly contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Nunnelly is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Nunnelly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nunnelly residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Nunnelly include English, German, Irish, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Nunnelly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, an interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.6% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 93.8% of the neighborhoods in 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 Nunnelly are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 46.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (12.9%), and 9.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.3%).
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 Nunnelly, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (43.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (65.6%) 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 (14.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.