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South Pittsburg, TN

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Overview


South Pittsburg is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,018 people and just one neighborhood, South Pittsburg is the 172nd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, South Pittsburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 55.52% of the South Pittsburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, South Pittsburg is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Pittsburg who work in food service (7.81%), personal care services (5.52%), and office and administrative support (5.35%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Being a small city, South Pittsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of South Pittsburg have a very low rate of college education: just 7.69% 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 South Pittsburg in 2018 was $24,156, 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 $96,624 for a family of four. However, South Pittsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in South Pittsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in South Pittsburg, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 46.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of American neighborhoods.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular South Pittsburg neighborhood.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in South Pittsburg is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.2% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee. If you are considering retiring to Tennessee, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 South Pittsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.2% 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, 46.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.8%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

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 South Pittsburg, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report German roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (19.7%) . 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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