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Surgoinsville, TN

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Overview


Surgoinsville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,904 people and just one neighborhood, Surgoinsville is the 224th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Surgoinsville is a blue-collar town, with 35.02% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Surgoinsville is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Surgoinsville who work in sales jobs (17.79%), healthcare (6.19%), and office and administrative support (5.63%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Surgoinsville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.46% of adults 25 and older in Surgoinsville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Surgoinsville in 2018 was $25,852, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,408 for a family of four. However, Surgoinsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.2% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of all American neighborhoods.

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 Surgoinsville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.2% 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, 41.1% 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.0%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).

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 Surgoinsville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 (37.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (92.2%) 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 (5.3%) . 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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