Toone is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 266 people and just one neighborhood, Toone is the 371st largest community in Tennessee.
When you are in Toone, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.69% of Toone’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Toone is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Toone who work in office and administrative support (23.74%), healthcare suport services (12.95%), and management occupations (11.51%).
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!) Toone 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. Toone has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Toone than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Toone may be for you.
Being a small town, Toone does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Toone has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.46% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Toone in 2022 was $16,372, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,488 for a family of four. However, Toone contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Toone also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 49.87% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Toone is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Toone home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Toone residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Toone include Irish, German, English, Welsh, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Toone is English. Other important languages spoken here include Hungarian and African languages.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 38.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 94.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Toone are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.7% 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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.4%), and 13.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.4%).
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 Toone, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), among others.
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 (31.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (12.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.