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Bells is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,458 people and just one neighborhood, Bells is the 196th largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bells is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.69% of the Bells workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bells is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bells who work in sales jobs (12.47%), office and administrative support (11.19%), and teaching (8.31%).
Setting & Lifestyle
As is often the case in a small city, Bells doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Bells has a very low overall level of education: only 9.95% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Bells in 2018 was $30,769, 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 $123,076 for a family of four. However, Bells contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bells is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bells home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bells residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bells also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.12% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bells include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bells is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 95.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.5% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Bells are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% 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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.2%), and 15.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.5%).
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 Bells, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (95.4%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
