New Tazewell is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,824 people and two associated neighborhoods, New Tazewell is the 181st largest community in Tennessee.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.36% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) New Tazewell 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. New Tazewell has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Tazewell than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Tazewell may be for you.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.70 minutes getting to work every day.
New Tazewell is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In New Tazewell, just 11.31% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in New Tazewell in 2022 was $26,082, 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 $104,328 for a family of four. However, New Tazewell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call New Tazewell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Tazewell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Tazewell include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in New Tazewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.