It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Dunlap 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. Dunlap has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dunlap than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dunlap may be for you.
Dunlap 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 citizens of Dunlap are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.15% of adults in Dunlap have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Dunlap in 2022 was $20,385, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,540 for a family of four. However, Dunlap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dunlap also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.32% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Dunlap is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dunlap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dunlap residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Dunlap also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.29% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dunlap include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Dunlap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
