McDonald is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 586 people and two associated neighborhoods, McDonald is the 325th largest community in Tennessee. McDonald has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McDonald is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 53.93% of the McDonald workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McDonald is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McDonald who work in sales jobs (14.41%), healthcare (13.10%), and maintenance occupations (5.46%). Also of interest is that McDonald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The town 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, McDonald has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McDonald a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. McDonald 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.The citizens of McDonald are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.84% of adults in McDonald having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in McDonald in 2022 was $34,033, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,132 for a family of four. However, McDonald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McDonald is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McDonald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McDonald residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McDonald include English, German, Scots-Irish, Dutch, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in McDonald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Langs. of India.
