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Clarksville, TN
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Living in Clarksville



Clarksville is a relatively large city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 176,974 people and 41 constituent neighborhoods, Clarksville is the fifth largest community in Tennessee.

Clarksville is a military town: the armed forces employs 8.19% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Healthcare and Manufacturing are important in the local economy and are the city’s largest civilian employers, employing 13.72% and 12.71% of the civilian workforce respectively.

The percentage of people in Clarksville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.74% of adults in Clarksville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Clarksville in 2018 was $27,437, 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 $109,748 for a family of four. However, Clarksville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Clarksville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Clarksville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Clarksville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Clarksville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.70% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Clarksville include German, Irish, English, European, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Clarksville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.