Palmersville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 162 people and just one neighborhood, Palmersville is the 382nd largest community in Tennessee.
Palmersville is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Palmersville is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Palmersville who work in office and administrative support (38.30%), sales jobs (25.53%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (19.15%).
Overall, Palmersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Palmersville 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. Palmersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Palmersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Palmersville may be for you.
One downside of living in Palmersville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.18 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Palmersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Palmersville rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.79% of adults 25 and older in Palmersville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Palmersville in 2022 was $26,182, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,728 for a family of four.
The people who call Palmersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Palmersville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Palmersville include Italian, English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Palmersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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.
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 47.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% of American neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.6%) than in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 16 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Palmersville 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 24.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.5% 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, 47.9% 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 25.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.8%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% 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 Palmersville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (3.7%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (71.7%) 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 (26.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.