New Tazewell is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,824 people and two associated neighborhoods, New Tazewell is the 181st largest community in Tennessee.When you are in New Tazewell, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 54.60% of New Tazewell’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Tazewell is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Tazewell who work in food service (8.02%), sales jobs (7.87%), and community and social services (6.85%). It is a fairly quiet town 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!) New Tazewell 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. New Tazewell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Tazewell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Tazewell may be for you. One of the benefits of New Tazewell is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.21 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result. Being a small town, New Tazewell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In New Tazewell, just 11.84% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in New Tazewell in 2022 was $26,395, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,580 for a family of four. However, New Tazewell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call New Tazewell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Tazewell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Tazewell include Irish, English, German, Polish, and French. The most common language spoken in New Tazewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.
