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Gordonsville, TN

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Overview


Gordonsville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,384 people and just one neighborhood, Gordonsville is the 258th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Gordonsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gordonsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gordonsville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gordonsville who work in office and administrative support (18.90%), teaching (8.66%), and sales jobs (6.82%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.07% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Gordonsville rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.81% of adults 25 and older in Gordonsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Gordonsville in 2018 was $32,697, 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 $130,788 for a family of four. However, Gordonsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Gordonsville 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.

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 Gordonsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.5% 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 66.3% 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, 41.1% 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 17.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.5% of households.

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 Gordonsville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (35.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (12.3%) . 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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