Doyle is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 513 people and just one neighborhood, Doyle is the 337th largest community in Tennessee.
Doyle is a blue-collar town, with 40.70% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Doyle is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Doyle who work in office and administrative support (25.63%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.04%), and sales jobs (5.03%).
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!) Doyle 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. Doyle has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Doyle than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Doyle may be for you.
Being a small town, Doyle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Doyle with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.20% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Doyle in 2022 was $16,290, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,160 for a family of four. However, Doyle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Doyle is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Doyle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Doyle residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Doyle include Irish, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Doyle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Doyle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 36.8% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 14.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Doyle, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 (33.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.