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Scotts Hill - Sardis, TN

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Overview


Scotts Hill - Sardis is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,809 people and just one neighborhood, Scotts Hill - Sardis is the 148th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Scotts Hill - Sardis is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Scotts Hill - Sardis is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Scotts Hill - Sardis who work in management occupations (15.10%), teaching (11.73%), and food service (9.65%).

A relatively large number of people in Scotts Hill - Sardis telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.33% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

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

Scotts Hill - Sardis 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

In terms of college education, Scotts Hill - Sardis is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 18.11% of adults 25 and older in Scotts Hill - Sardis have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Scotts Hill - Sardis in 2022 was $24,722, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,888 for a family of four. However, Scotts Hill - Sardis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Scotts Hill - Sardis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Scotts Hill - Sardis, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 35 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Scotts Hill - Sardis are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.4% of America'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, 37.5% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Scotts Hill - Sardis, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (83.4%) 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 (7.7%) . 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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