Copperhill - Ducktown is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,613 people and just one neighborhood, Copperhill - Ducktown is the 162nd largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns, Copperhill - Ducktown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Copperhill - Ducktown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Copperhill - Ducktown is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Copperhill - Ducktown who work in maintenance occupations (10.82%), sales jobs (8.28%), and management occupations (7.32%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Copperhill - Ducktown is worth considering.
One downside of living in Copperhill - Ducktown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.87 minutes every day commuting to work.
The percentage of adults in Copperhill - Ducktown who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.48% of the adults in Copperhill - Ducktown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Copperhill - Ducktown in 2022 was $28,373, 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 $113,492 for a family of four. However, Copperhill - Ducktown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Copperhill - Ducktown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Copperhill - Ducktown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Copperhill - Ducktown include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Copperhill - Ducktown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Copperhill - Ducktown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish 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 Copperhill - Ducktown are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.3% of U.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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.0%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 93.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Copperhill - Ducktown, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.