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Bon Aqua is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,712 people and just one neighborhood, Bon Aqua is the 153rd largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Bon Aqua is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bon Aqua is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bon Aqua who work in sales jobs (18.41%), maintenance occupations (13.73%), and personal care services (9.81%).
Also of interest is that Bon Aqua 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 town 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!) Bon Aqua 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. Bon Aqua has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bon Aqua than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bon Aqua may be for you.
One downside of living in Bon Aqua, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.55 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Bon Aqua does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In Bon Aqua, just 9.49% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bon Aqua in 2018 was $25,819, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,276 for a family of four. However, Bon Aqua contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bon Aqua is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bon Aqua home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bon Aqua residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Bon Aqua include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Brazilian.
The most common language spoken in Bon Aqua is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (28.6%) than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Occupations
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (56.8%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry and 5.0% have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% 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 Bon Aqua are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.4% 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, 43.2% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 5.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
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 Bon Aqua, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (3.8%), 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 (40.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (69.5%) 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 (28.6%) . 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.
