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. 53.22% 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, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Tazewell who work in healthcare (8.73%), food service (8.07%), and teaching (6.81%). A relatively large number of people in New Tazewell telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.36% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. 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, New Tazewell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Tazewell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One of the benefits of New Tazewell is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.70 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. New Tazewell 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 rate of college-level education in New Tazewell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.31% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in New Tazewell in 2022 was $26,082, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,328 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 English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French. The most common language spoken in New Tazewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.
