About Eads

Eads is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,826 people and just one neighborhood, Eads is the 126th largest community in Tennessee.

Unlike some towns , Eads isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Eads are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Eads is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eads who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.31%), sales jobs (15.88%), and management occupations (10.07%).

Because of many things, Eads 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, Eads really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Eads 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.

One downside of living in Eads, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.93 minutes every day commuting to work.

Eads is a very car-oriented town. 98.31% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Eads is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Eads has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Eads does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Eads Information and Demographics

The education level of Eads citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 29.64% of adults in Eads have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Eads in 2000 was $30,620, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $122,480 for a family of four. However, Eads contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Eads is English.