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Charleston, TN

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Overview


Charleston is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 675 people and just one neighborhood, Charleston is the 315th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Charleston, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.86% of Charleston’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Charleston is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Charleston who work in office and administrative support (20.30%), management occupations (6.77%), and food service (6.39%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The population of Charleston has a very low overall level of education: only 9.31% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Charleston in 2018 was $23,230, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,920 for a family of four. However, Charleston contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Charleston, 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 Charleston are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.2% 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 53.4% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 36.9% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.3%), and 17.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

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 Charleston, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (1.9%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (47.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.2%) 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.


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