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Friendsville, TN

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Overview


Friendsville is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 902 people and just one neighborhood, Friendsville is the 288th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Friendsville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Friendsville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Friendsville is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Friendsville who work in maintenance occupations (14.65%), food service (10.85%), and office and administrative support (9.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Friendsville is worth considering.

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

Demographics

The population of Friendsville has a very low overall level of education: only 9.96% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Friendsville in 2022 was $27,967, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,868 for a family of four. However, Friendsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Friendsville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Friendsville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Friendsville include Irish, English, German, Scottish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Friendsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

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 Friendsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.9% 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 56.2% 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, 37.4% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Friendsville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 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 (71.4%) 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 (10.6%) . 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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