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!) Decatur 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. Decatur has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Decatur than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Decatur may be for you.
Decatur 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.
In Decatur, just 8.54% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Decatur in 2018 was $21,183, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,732 for a family of four. However, Decatur contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Decatur also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Decatur home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Decatur residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Decatur include Italian, Irish, English, German, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in Decatur is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
