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Blaine, TN

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Overview


Blaine is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,115 people and just one neighborhood, Blaine is the 216th largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Blaine, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Blaine, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Blaine’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Blaine does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $56,942.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Blaine isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blaine are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blaine is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blaine who work in healthcare (10.72%), office and administrative support (10.45%), and sales jobs (9.35%).

Of important note, Blaine is also a city of artists. Blaine has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Blaine’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Blaine is worth considering.

One downside of living in Blaine, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.89 minutes every day commuting to work.

Blaine 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 education level of Blaine citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.35% of adults in Blaine have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Blaine in 2018 was $27,621, 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 $110,484 for a family of four. However, Blaine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Blaine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blaine residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blaine include English, German, Irish, Swedish, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Blaine, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Blaine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.8% 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, 31.9% 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 31.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.7% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Blaine, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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