Tennessee Colony is a medium-sized town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 11,665 people and two associated neighborhoods, Tennessee Colony is the 230th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Tennessee Colony was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Tennessee Colony economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Tennessee Colony, where the median household income is $73,705.00.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.45% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

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!) Tennessee Colony 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. Tennessee Colony has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tennessee Colony than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tennessee Colony may be for you.

Being a small town, Tennessee Colony does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In Tennessee Colony, just 10.45% 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 Tennessee Colony in 2022 was $16,717, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,868 for a family of four. However, Tennessee Colony contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tennessee Colony also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 60.17% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Tennessee Colony is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tennessee Colony home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tennessee Colony residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tennessee Colony also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.47% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tennessee Colony include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Tennessee Colony is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.