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Mooresburg, TN

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Overview


Mooresburg is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 877 people and just one neighborhood, Mooresburg is the 290th largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mooresburg, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mooresburg, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mooresburg’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mooresburg does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $38,491.00.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mooresburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.26% of Mooresburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mooresburg is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooresburg who work in healthcare (11.86%), food service (8.76%), and sales jobs (5.67%).

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

As is often the case in a small town, Mooresburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Mooresburg have a very low rate of college education: just 9.25% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Mooresburg in 2018 was $22,715, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,860 for a family of four.

The people who call Mooresburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mooresburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mooresburg include Scots-Irish, Irish, German, English, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Mooresburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 53.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mooresburg are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.5% 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.

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, 53.8% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.5%), and 12.5% 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 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Mooresburg, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (6.6%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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