White Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,386 people and just one neighborhood, White Bluff is the 146th largest community in Tennessee.
White Bluff is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, White Bluff is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in White Bluff who work in sales jobs (19.18%), office and administrative support (13.72%), and management occupations (13.72%).
Of important note, White Bluff is also a town of artists. White Bluff has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape White Bluff’s character.
A relatively large number of people in White Bluff telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.22% 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.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, White Bluff is worth considering.
In White Bluff, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.29 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, White Bluff doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of White Bluff are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.74% of adults in White Bluff have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in White Bluff in 2022 was $39,753, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,012 for a family of four. However, White Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call White Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in White Bluff include English, Irish, German, European, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in White Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.
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 White Bluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 34.3% 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 (19.4%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 White Bluff, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (48.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (78.1%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.