Rickman is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,559 people and just one neighborhood, Rickman is the 195th largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns, Rickman isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rickman are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rickman is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rickman who work in office and administrative support (13.85%), maintenance occupations (13.52%), and management occupations (9.24%).
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, Rickman has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rickman a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Rickman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Rickman with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.25% of adults in Rickman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rickman in 2022 was $29,051, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,204 for a family of four. However, Rickman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rickman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rickman residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rickman include English, German, Irish, French, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Rickman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 21.3% have English ancestry.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Rickman are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.7%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% 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 Rickman, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (21.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.5%), along with some Eastern European ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.9%) 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.