Tellico Plains is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 781 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. One downside of living in Tellico Plains is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Tellico Plains, the average commute to work is 31.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Tellico Plains 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 Tellico Plains are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.92% of adults in Tellico Plains have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree 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.
