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Rossville, TN
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Living in Rossville



Rossville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,124 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Rossville is the 275th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Rossville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Rossville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Rossville, where the median household income is $117,250.00.

Rossville home prices are not only among the most expensive in Tennessee, but Rossville real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Also of interest is that Rossville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.38% 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.

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

One downside of living in Rossville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.16 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

In terms of college education, Rossville is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.09% of adults in Rossville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Rossville in 2018 was $51,023, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $204,092 for a family of four. However, Rossville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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


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