Monroe is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,708 people and just one neighborhood, Monroe is the 239th largest community in Tennessee.
Monroe is a blue-collar town, with 36.65% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Monroe is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroe who work in management occupations (12.42%), healthcare (9.01%), and maintenance occupations (8.39%).
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!) Monroe 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. Monroe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Monroe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Monroe may be for you.
In Monroe, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.58 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Monroe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Monroe with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.15% of adults in Monroe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Monroe in 2022 was $38,210, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,840 for a family of four. However, Monroe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Monroe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monroe residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Monroe include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Monroe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.
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.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Monroe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.3% of America'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, 34.6% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (29.0%), and 4.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
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 Monroe, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (89.0%) 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.