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Gleason, TN

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Overview


Gleason is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,368 people and just one neighborhood, Gleason is the 257th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Gleason isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gleason are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gleason is a town of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gleason who work in healthcare (11.25%), management occupations (7.92%), and healthcare suport services (7.45%).

Of important note, Gleason is also a town of artists. Gleason has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Gleason’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Gleason is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.61% of adults 25 and older in Gleason have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gleason in 2018 was $28,063, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,252 for a family of four. However, Gleason contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Gleason is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Japanese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 44 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Gleason are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.8% of U.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, 34.5% 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 34.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.7%), and 14.6% 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 96.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).

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 Gleason, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.6%) 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 (15.9%) . 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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