Because there are quite a few people attending college in Ooltewah, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Ooltewah provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.
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!) Ooltewah 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. Ooltewah has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ooltewah than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ooltewah may be for you.
Ooltewah 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.
The citizens of Ooltewah are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.54% of adults in Ooltewah having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Ooltewah in 2022 was $41,149, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,596 for a family of four. However, Ooltewah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ooltewah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ooltewah residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ooltewah include English, Irish, German, French Canadian, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Ooltewah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and African languages.
