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Cowan, TN

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Overview


Cowan is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,778 people and just one neighborhood, Cowan is the 234th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cowan is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.78% of the Cowan workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cowan is a city of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cowan who work in management occupations (7.71%), office and administrative support (7.51%), and sales jobs (6.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cowan has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cowan a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small city, Cowan does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Cowan is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.61% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cowan in 2018 was $18,433, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,732 for a family of four. Cowan also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.02% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

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

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

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 Cowan are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.0% 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, 36.8% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.0%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.5% 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 Cowan, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.7%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (4.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 (48.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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