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Coopertown, TN

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Overview


Coopertown is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,673 people and just one neighborhood, Coopertown is the 127th largest community in Tennessee.

Coopertown real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Coopertown house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Coopertown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Coopertown is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Coopertown who work in sales jobs (16.88%), healthcare (9.06%), and management occupations (8.11%).

Also of interest is that Coopertown has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Coopertown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.57% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Coopertown 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. Coopertown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Coopertown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Coopertown may be for you.

One downside of living in Coopertown is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Coopertown, the average commute to work is 35.37 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Coopertown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Coopertown citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.19% of adults in Coopertown have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.

The per capita income in Coopertown in 2022 was $46,093, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $184,372 for a family of four. However, Coopertown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Coopertown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Coopertown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Coopertown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Coopertown include Irish, German, English, European, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Coopertown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

With a real estate vacancy rate of only 0.0%, the neighborhood has a lower vacancy rate than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods, a very elite group. Such a low vacancy rate may indicate very strong real estate demand in the neighborhood combined with some impediments to increasing supply, such as zoning or existing density of development, among other potential reasons.

People

If you are an executive or professional seeking a neighborhood affording an executive lifestyle, or just wanting to find where other executives live in the area, the neighborhood should be on your list. It has an enviable mix of spacious homes, relatively stable real estate values, and residents that include a number of wealthy executives, managers, and professionals. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis places it as one of the top 12.8% executive lifestyle neighborhoods in the state of Tennessee.

Diversity

Significantly, 3.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Coopertown are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 85.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% 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 55.7% 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, 45.1% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.3%), and 5.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Greek and Spanish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Coopertown, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report German roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (5.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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