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Caryville, TN

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Overview


Caryville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,155 people and just one neighborhood, Caryville is the 210th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Caryville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Caryville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Caryville is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Caryville who work in sales jobs (16.57%), office and administrative support (10.97%), and management occupations (10.97%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town 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, Caryville is worth considering.

Caryville is a small town, 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 Caryville has a very low overall level of education: only 9.49% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Caryville in 2018 was $32,844, 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 $131,376 for a family of four. However, Caryville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.3% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

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 Caryville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% 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, 39.5% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 8.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Caryville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (4.5%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (29.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (8.0%) . 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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