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Roan Mountain, TN

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Overview


Roan Mountain is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,078 people and just one neighborhood, Roan Mountain is the 274th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Roan Mountain, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 43.24% of Roan Mountain’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Roan Mountain is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Roan Mountain who work in teaching (15.94%), maintenance occupations (11.11%), and healthcare (9.66%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Roan Mountain has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Roan Mountain a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Roan Mountain is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Roan Mountain, the average commute to work is 32.10 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Roan Mountain 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.

Demographics

The education level of Roan Mountain citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.71% of adults in Roan Mountain have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Roan Mountain in 2022 was $30,671, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,684 for a family of four. However, Roan Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Roan Mountain home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Roan Mountain residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Roan Mountain include German, English, Dutch, Irish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Roan Mountain is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 31.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

Diversity

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, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Roan Mountain are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.1% 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, 35.0% 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.9%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.6% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Roan Mountain, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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