Cottontown is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 397 people and three associated neighborhoods, Cottontown is the 346th largest community in Tennessee.

Cottontown home prices are not only among the most expensive in Tennessee, but Cottontown real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

A relatively large number of people in Cottontown telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.03% 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.

Because of many things, Cottontown 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, Cottontown really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cottontown 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!) Cottontown 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. Cottontown has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cottontown than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cottontown may be for you.

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

The percentage of people in Cottontown who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.19% of adults in Cottontown have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cottontown in 2022 was $42,603, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $170,412 for a family of four.

The people who call Cottontown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cottontown residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cottontown include German, English, French, Irish, and British.

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