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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

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Roan Mountain is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.24% of the Roan Mountain workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. 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

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!) Roan Mountain 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. Roan Mountain has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Roan Mountain than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Roan Mountain may be for you.

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.

Being a small town, Roan Mountain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Roan Mountain overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Roan Mountain, 21.71% 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

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.

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.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

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 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 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

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 (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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