Spencer is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,590 people and two associated neighborhoods, Spencer is the 253rd largest community in Tennessee.When you are in Spencer, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.92% of Spencer’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spencer is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spencer who work in office and administrative support (13.12%), maintenance occupations (10.08%), and healthcare suport services (7.52%). A relatively large number of people in Spencer telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.44% 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, Spencer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Spencer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Spencer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The rate of college-level education in Spencer is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.30% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in Spencer in 2022 was $25,361, 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 $101,444 for a family of four. However, Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spencer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spencer include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
