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Gadsden, TN

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Overview


Gadsden is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 472 people and just one neighborhood, Gadsden is the 339th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Gadsden is a blue-collar town, with 37.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gadsden is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gadsden who work in sales jobs (13.10%), office and administrative support (7.59%), and teaching (7.59%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Gadsden has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gadsden has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gadsden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gadsden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gadsden may be for you.

In Gadsden, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.05 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Gadsden is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Gadsden has a very low overall level of education: only 9.19% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Gadsden in 2018 was $31,234, 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 $124,936 for a family of four. However, Gadsden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gadsden is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gadsden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gadsden residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gadsden include English, German, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Gadsden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Gadsden, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 41 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.7% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Gadsden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 41.0% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Gadsden, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report German roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (3.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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