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Kingston Springs, TN

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Overview


Kingston Springs is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,772 people and just one neighborhood, Kingston Springs is the 179th largest community in Tennessee.

Kingston Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Kingston Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Kingston Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kingston Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kingston Springs is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kingston Springs who work in management occupations (14.62%), office and administrative support (9.77%), and sales jobs (9.77%).

Also of interest is that Kingston Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Kingston Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 19.47% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Kingston Springs is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Kingston Springs’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in Kingston Springs is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Kingston Springs, the average commute to work is 34.11 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Demographics

The education level of Kingston Springs citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 39.64% of adults in Kingston Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Kingston Springs in 2022 was $44,830, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $179,320 for a family of four. However, Kingston Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Tennessee. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Kingston Springs are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% 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 72.8% of America'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, 42.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.6%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households.

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 Kingston Springs, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (66.3%) 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 (13.5%) . 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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