Tracy City - Coalmont is a somewhat small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,285 people and just one neighborhood, Tracy City - Coalmont is the 112th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tracy City - Coalmont is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.22% of the Tracy City - Coalmont workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tracy City - Coalmont is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tracy City - Coalmont who work in office and administrative support (9.97%), healthcare (8.23%), and sales jobs (7.43%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Tracy City - Coalmont is worth considering.
One downside of living in Tracy City - Coalmont, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.98 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Tracy City - Coalmont does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Tracy City - Coalmont rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.22% of adults 25 and older in Tracy City - Coalmont 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 Tracy City - Coalmont in 2022 was $27,009, 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 $108,036 for a family of four. However, Tracy City - Coalmont contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tracy City - Coalmont home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tracy City - Coalmont residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Tracy City - Coalmont include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Tracy City - Coalmont is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Furthermore, 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 45.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.2% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Tracy City - Coalmont are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.1% 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 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 45.0% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 15.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.7% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Tracy City - Coalmont, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (16.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.