Ten Mile is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,536 people and just one neighborhood, Ten Mile is the 164th largest community in Tennessee.
Ten Mile is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Ten Mile is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ten Mile who work in sales jobs (12.32%), management occupations (11.28%), and food service (8.40%).
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, Ten Mile has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ten Mile a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Ten Mile, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.92 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Ten Mile does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Ten Mile is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.35% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ten Mile in 2022 was $29,329, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,316 for a family of four. However, Ten Mile contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ten Mile home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ten Mile residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ten Mile include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ten Mile is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 27.6% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.2% 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.
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 Ten Mile are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.6% 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.
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, 34.4% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (29.0%), and 6.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% 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 Ten Mile, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (68.1%) 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 (27.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.