About Bartlett

Bartlett is a medium-sized city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 40,309 people and just one neighborhood, Bartlett is the 13th largest community in Tennessee.

Unlike some cities , Bartlett isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bartlett are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bartlett is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bartlett who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.40%), sales jobs (12.77%), and management occupations (11.54%).

Also of interest is that Bartlett has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Because of many things, Bartlett is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Bartlett really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Bartlett perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Bartlett is a very car-oriented city: 99.4% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. In fact, the general consensus among people in Bartlett is that if you need to get anywhere, you're going to have to drive. The landscape is very car-oriented, and features shopping centers, strip malls, parking lots, and wide streets. Pedestrians are discouraged by the fact that sidewalks are not always present, which makes attempts at walking downright daunting in certain parts of town.

Bartlett is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Bartlett Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Bartlett is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 28.22% of adults in Bartlett have a college degree.

The per capita income in Bartlett in 2000 was $24,616, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,464 for a family of four. However, Bartlett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Bartlett home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bartlett is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bartlett include English, Irish, German, Scotch-Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Bartlett is English.