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Wildersville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 161 people and just one neighborhood, Wildersville is the 383rd largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Wildersville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.93% of Wildersville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wildersville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wildersville who work in teaching (24.64%), office and administrative support (18.84%), and architecture and engineering (11.59%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The overall crime rate in Wildersville is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Wildersville 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. Wildersville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Wildersville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Wildersville may be for you.
One downside of living in Wildersville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wildersville, the average commute to work is 36.52 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Wildersville is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Wildersville is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Wildersville has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, Wildersville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Wildersville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Wildersville, 22.88% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wildersville in 2018 was $24,101, 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 $96,404 for a family of four. However, Wildersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wildersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wildersville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wildersville include Italian, Scottish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Wildersville 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.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Wildersville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 40.5% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 9.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Wildersville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
