Tellico Plains is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 777 people and three associated neighborhoods, Tellico Plains is the 305th largest community in Tennessee.Tellico Plains is a blue-collar town, with 38.23% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tellico Plains is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tellico Plains who work in office and administrative support (15.95%), teaching (11.65%), and management occupations (8.61%). 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!) Tellico Plains 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. Tellico Plains has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tellico Plains than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tellico Plains may be for you. In Tellico Plains, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Tellico Plains does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Tellico Plains rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.92% of adults 25 and older in Tellico Plains have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Tellico Plains in 2022 was $21,932, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,728 for a family of four. However, Tellico Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tellico Plains is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tellico Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tellico Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tellico Plains include Irish, English, German, Greek, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Tellico Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
