Mooresburg is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 877 people and just one neighborhood, Mooresburg is the 290th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Mooresburg was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Mooresburg economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Mooresburg, where the median household income is $38,491.00.
Mooresburg is a blue-collar town, with 50.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mooresburg is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mooresburg who work in healthcare (11.86%), food service (8.76%), and sales jobs (5.67%).
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!) Mooresburg 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. Mooresburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mooresburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mooresburg may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Mooresburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Mooresburg, just 9.25% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Mooresburg in 2022 was $22,715, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,860 for a family of four.
The people who call Mooresburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mooresburg residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mooresburg include Scots-Irish, Irish, German, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Mooresburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 53.8% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.5% of American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Mooresburg are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.8% of U.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, 53.8% 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 20.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.5%), and 12.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.1%).
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 Mooresburg, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.6%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.0%) 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 (6.6%) and 5.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.