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Williston, TN

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Overview


Williston is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 343 people and just one neighborhood, Williston is the 355th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Williston is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.65% of the Williston workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Williston is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Williston who work in sales jobs (9.01%), office and administrative support (6.87%), and maintenance occupations (4.72%).

Also of interest is that Williston has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Williston has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Williston has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Williston than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Williston may be for you.

One downside of living in Williston is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Williston, the average commute to work is 36.08 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Williston is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Williston has a very low overall level of education: only 8.33% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Williston in 2018 was $29,307, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,228 for a family of four. However, Williston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Williston is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.7% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee. If you are considering retiring to Tennessee, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Williston are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

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 Williston, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (82.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (10.0%) . 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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