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Castalian Springs, TN

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Overview


Castalian Springs is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 608 people and just one neighborhood, Castalian Springs is the 322nd largest community in Tennessee.

Castalian Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Castalian Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Castalian Springs is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Castalian Springs is a town of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Castalian Springs who work in teaching (20.58%), management occupations (10.11%), and office and administrative support (9.75%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.47% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Castalian Springs is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Castalian Springs really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Castalian Springs perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

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!) Castalian Springs 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. Castalian Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Castalian Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Castalian Springs may be for you.

Castalian Springs 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 education level of Castalian Springs citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 36.34% of adults in Castalian Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Castalian Springs in 2018 was $34,472, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $137,888 for a family of four.

The people who call Castalian Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Castalian Springs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Castalian Springs include English, Irish, German, French, and French Canadian.

The most common language spoken in Castalian Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Langs. of India.

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.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.6% 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 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Castalian Springs are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 66.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.0% of America'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, 36.7% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).

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 Castalian Springs, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.2%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (31.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (5.5%) . 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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