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Cunningham, TN

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Overview


Cunningham is a somewhat small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,085 people and just one neighborhood, Cunningham is the 105th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Cunningham is a blue-collar town, with 38.01% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cunningham is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cunningham who work in office and administrative support (11.14%), maintenance occupations (10.27%), and sales jobs (5.85%).

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

In Cunningham, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.53 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Cunningham is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cunningham is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.35% of adults 25 and older in Cunningham have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cunningham in 2022 was $30,859, 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 $123,436 for a family of four. However, Cunningham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 Cunningham are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 34.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.4%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Cunningham, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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