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Telford, TN

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Overview


Telford is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 909 people and just one neighborhood, Telford is the 286th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Telford, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 60.68% of Telford’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Telford is a town of construction workers and builders, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Telford who work in office and administrative support (12.38%), management occupations (11.89%), and food service (8.01%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Telford is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Telford with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.58% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Telford in 2018 was $27,699, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,796 for a family of four. However, Telford contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Telford is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.3% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Tennessee, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Tennessee.

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 Telford are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.1% 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, 35.8% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.0%).

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 Telford, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (54.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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