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%).

Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.02 minutes getting to work every day.

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.

As is often the case in a small town, Rogersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

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.