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Three Way, TN

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Overview


Three Way is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,904 people and just one neighborhood, Three Way is the 225th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Three Way is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Three Way is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Three Way who work in healthcare (15.05%), management occupations (12.76%), and teaching (12.21%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Three Way is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Three Way a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Three Way has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Three Way’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Three Way has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Three Way a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Three Way does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Three Way citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 37.12% of adults in Three Way have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Three Way in 2018 was $40,437, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $161,748 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Three Way is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are planning to retire in Tennessee, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Tennessee, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.2% of neighborhoods in TN. If a Tennessee retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.

Real Estate

The neighborhood has earned the amazing distinction of having one of the highest rates of detached, single-family homes of any neighborhood in the U.S. With 98.2% of the residential real estate here made up of free-standing single-family homes, there is a greater proportion of single-family homes here than in 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.9% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Three Way are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.4% 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, 51.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 18.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.8%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Three Way, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.6%) 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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