St. Joseph - Iron City is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,246 people and just one neighborhood, St. Joseph - Iron City is the 212th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, St. Joseph - Iron City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.71% of the St. Joseph - Iron City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, St. Joseph - Iron City is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in St. Joseph - Iron City who work in farm management occupations (8.94%), sales jobs (8.20%), and healthcare (7.45%).
In addition, many people in St. Joseph - Iron City have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.23% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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, St. Joseph - Iron City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes St. Joseph - Iron City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, St. Joseph - Iron City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in St. Joseph - Iron City is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.92% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in St. Joseph - Iron City in 2022 was $30,773, 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 $123,092 for a family of four. However, St. Joseph - Iron City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call St. Joseph - Iron City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of St. Joseph - Iron City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in St. Joseph - Iron City include English, Irish, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in St. Joseph - Iron City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.
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.
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 8.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
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 25 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.6% 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 St. Joseph - Iron City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% 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, 37.8% 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 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 8.9% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% 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 St. Joseph - Iron City, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (43.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.