Big Rock is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 291 people and just one neighborhood, Big Rock is the 366th largest community in Tennessee.
Big Rock is a blue-collar town, with 49.49% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Big Rock is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Big Rock who work in sales jobs (29.29%), office and administrative support (14.14%), and architecture and engineering (7.07%).
Because of many things, Big Rock is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Big Rock really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Big Rock perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
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!) Big Rock 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. Big Rock has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Big Rock than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Big Rock may be for you.
Big Rock is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Big Rock is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Big Rock has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Big Rock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Big Rock has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.47% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Big Rock in 2022 was $31,381, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,524 for a family of four.
The people who call Big Rock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Big Rock residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Big Rock include English, Irish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Big Rock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Big Rock are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.0% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 31.2% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 21.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).
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 Big Rock, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report English roots (7.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.
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 (28.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.