New Tazewell is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,803 people and two associated neighborhoods, New Tazewell is the 181st largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, New Tazewell is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 54.60% of the New Tazewell workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, New Tazewell is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Tazewell who work in food service (8.02%), sales jobs (7.87%), and community and social services (6.85%). The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, New Tazewell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Tazewell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of New Tazewell spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.21 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be. As is often the case in a small town, New Tazewell doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The rate of college-level education in New Tazewell is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.84% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree. The per capita income in New Tazewell in 2022 was $26,395, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,580 for a family of four. However, New Tazewell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call New Tazewell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Tazewell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Tazewell include Irish, English, German, Polish, and French. The most common language spoken in New Tazewell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Other Asian languages.
