Rogersville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,242 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Rogersville is the 142nd largest community in Tennessee.

When you are in Rogersville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 47.3% of Rogersville's employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 24.7% that do. Overall, Rogersville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rogersville who work in sales jobs (11.00%), office and administrative support jobs (8.02%), and healthcare (7.44%).

One of the benefits of Rogersville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.02 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Rogersville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Rogersville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.82% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Rogersville Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Rogersville with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 9.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rogersville in 2000 was $16,940, 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 $67,760 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Rogersville is English.