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What are the risks of violent crime here?
Is the risk of home break-ins or other property crimes increasing?
Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
...and dozens more.
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Beech Bluff is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 379 people and just one neighborhood, Beech Bluff is the 348th largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Beech Bluff is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beech Bluff is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Bluff who work in healthcare (21.15%), food service (10.77%), and office and administrative support (10.38%).
Of important note, Beech Bluff is also a town of artists. Beech Bluff has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Beech Bluff’s character.
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Beech Bluff’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Beech Bluff 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. Beech Bluff has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beech Bluff than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beech Bluff may be for you.
One downside of living in Beech Bluff is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beech Bluff, the average commute to work is 33.40 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Beech Bluff 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.
Demographics
Beech Bluff ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.34% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Beech Bluff in 2022 was $28,802, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,208 for a family of four.
Beech Bluff is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beech Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beech Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beech Bluff include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Beech Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Beech Bluff, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 93.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.
People
The neighborhood stands out within Tennessee for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 9.6% of college-friendly places to live in TN.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beech Bluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 35.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 42.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.2% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Beech Bluff, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.6%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (65.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (93.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
