It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Sparta 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. Sparta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sparta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sparta may be for you.
One of the benefits of Sparta is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.50 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Sparta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Sparta who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.15% of the adults in Sparta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sparta in 2022 was $29,020, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,080 for a family of four. However, Sparta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sparta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sparta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sparta include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Sparta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
