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Gruetli Laager - Palmer, TN

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Overview


Gruetli Laager - Palmer is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,085 people and just one neighborhood, Gruetli Laager - Palmer is the 143rd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Gruetli Laager - Palmer isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gruetli Laager - Palmer are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gruetli Laager - Palmer is a town of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gruetli Laager - Palmer who work in teaching (12.44%), management occupations (10.18%), and sales jobs (9.30%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

One downside of living in Gruetli Laager - Palmer, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.06 minutes every day commuting to work.

Gruetli Laager - Palmer is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The population of Gruetli Laager - Palmer has a very low overall level of education: only 9.56% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Gruetli Laager - Palmer in 2022 was $20,009, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,036 for a family of four. However, Gruetli Laager - Palmer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Gruetli Laager - Palmer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gruetli Laager - Palmer residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Gruetli Laager - Palmer include Irish, English, Dutch, German, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Gruetli Laager - Palmer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Gruetli Laager - Palmer, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more 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 Dutch ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gruetli Laager - Palmer are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.2% 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, 34.5% 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 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 9.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Gruetli Laager - Palmer, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (11.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.8%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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