White Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,005 people and just one neighborhood, White Bluff is the 146th largest community in Tennessee.
White Bluff real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although White Bluff house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
White Bluff is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, White Bluff is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in White Bluff who work in sales jobs (23.84%), management occupations (13.00%), and office and administrative support (12.39%).
Also of interest is that White Bluff has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in White Bluff telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.88% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
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, White Bluff is worth considering.
One downside of living in White Bluff is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In White Bluff, the average commute to work is 36.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, White Bluff does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of White Bluff are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.20% of adults in White Bluff have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in White Bluff in 2022 was $32,844, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,376 for a family of four. However, White Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call White Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in White Bluff include Irish, English, German, European, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in White Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in White Bluff, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
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 White Bluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.2% of the neighborhoods in America. 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 executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 19.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.2%).
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 White Bluff, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.8%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.8%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (46.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (73.1%) 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 (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.