Sparta is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,915 people and five associated neighborhoods, Sparta is the 118th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Sparta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sparta is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sparta who work in food service (12.92%), office and administrative support (10.34%), and management occupations (8.90%). Also of interest is that Sparta has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Sparta 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. Sparta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sparta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sparta may be for you. Being a small city, Sparta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Sparta rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.30% of adults 25 and older in Sparta have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Sparta in 2022 was $23,912, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $95,648 for a family of four. However, Sparta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Sparta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sparta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sparta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sparta include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European. The most common language spoken in Sparta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
