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!) Spencer 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. Spencer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Spencer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Spencer may be for you.
Being a small town, Spencer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Spencer, just 11.30% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Spencer in 2022 was $25,361, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,444 for a family of four. However, Spencer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Spencer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spencer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Spencer include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Spencer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
