Because there are quite a few people attending college in Johnson City, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Johnson City provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.
Not only is Johnson City a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Johnson City is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Johnson City a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
The citizens of Johnson City are among the most well-educated in the nation: 40.62% of adults in Johnson City have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Johnson City in 2018 was $36,210, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $144,840 for a family of four. However, Johnson City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Johnson City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Johnson City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Johnson City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Johnson City include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Johnson City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
