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%).
Being a small town, Riceville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Riceville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.31% of adults 25 and older in the town 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.
Our research reveals that 88.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of U.S. 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.
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 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.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
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.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
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.
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 (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.