Cross Plains is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,860 people and just one neighborhood, Cross Plains is the 231st largest community in Tennessee.
Cross Plains real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Cross Plains house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities, Cross Plains isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cross Plains are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cross Plains is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cross Plains who work in office and administrative support (13.10%), management occupations (9.11%), and healthcare suport services (9.01%).
A relatively large number of people in Cross Plains telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.99% 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.
Cross Plains’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Cross Plains, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.72 minutes every day commuting to work.
Cross Plains is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Cross Plains who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.15% of the adults in Cross Plains have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cross Plains in 2022 was $31,651, 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 $126,604 for a family of four. However, Cross Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Cross Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cross Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cross Plains include German, English, Irish, French, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cross Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and French.
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 Cross Plains, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Tennessee. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.
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 Cross Plains are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.8% 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 76.0% 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, 36.6% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.1%), and 14.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (2.2%).
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 Cross Plains, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.