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Sunbright, TN

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Overview


Sunbright is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 531 people and just one neighborhood, Sunbright is the 334th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sunbright is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.13% of the Sunbright workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sunbright is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Sunbright who work in teaching (15.35%), management occupations (12.20%), and food service (7.48%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Sunbright has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sunbright a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Sunbright is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Sunbright ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.68% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sunbright in 2018 was $20,090, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,360 for a family of four. However, Sunbright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sunbright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and West Germanic languages.

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.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 94.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 4.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Sunbright are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.0% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.2%), and 14.2% 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 94.6% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (4.8%).

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 Sunbright, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 (39.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (13.6%) . 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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