Whiteside is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 274 people and just one neighborhood, Whiteside is the 369th largest community in Tennessee.
Whiteside is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Whiteside is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whiteside who work in maintenance occupations (100.00%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Whiteside’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Whiteside 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. Whiteside has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Whiteside than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Whiteside may be for you.
One downside of living in Whiteside is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Whiteside, the average commute to work is 52.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Whiteside is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Whiteside is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Whiteside has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
As is often the case in a small town, Whiteside doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Whiteside has a very low overall level of education: only 7.47% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Whiteside in 2022 was $30,514, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,056 for a family of four. However, Whiteside contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Whiteside home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whiteside residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Whiteside include German, Dutch, Celtic, English, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Whiteside is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Whiteside neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 3.5% have Dutch ancestry.
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 Whiteside are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.8% of U.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, 31.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.9%), and 14.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households.
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Whiteside, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.8%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.