Riceville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 688 people and just one neighborhood, Riceville is the 312th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Riceville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Riceville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Riceville, where the median household income is $51,100.00.
Riceville is a blue-collar town, with 36.02% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Riceville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Riceville who work in management occupations (27.09%), food service (15.27%), and teaching (12.39%).
Riceville 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 percentage of people in Riceville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.31% of adults in Riceville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Riceville in 2022 was $26,675, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,700 for a family of four. However, Riceville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Riceville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Riceville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Riceville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Riceville include Irish, German, English, Portuguese, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Riceville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.3% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.3% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 25.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 3.6% have Dominican ancestry.
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 Riceville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 42.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 42.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 10.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Riceville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (25.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of Dominican ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.9%), 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 (45.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.3%) 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 (6.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.