About Unicoi

Unicoi is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,493 people and just one neighborhood, Unicoi is the 169th largest community in Tennessee.

Unicoi is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Unicoi is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Unicoi who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.59%), sales jobs (10.60%), and healthcare (7.33%).

Unicoi is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Unicoi, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.62% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Unicoi Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Unicoi who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 15.30% of the adults in Unicoi have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Unicoi in 2000 was $15,870, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $63,480 for a family of four.

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

The most common language spoken in Unicoi is English. Some people also speak Spanish.