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White Bluff, TN

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Overview


White Bluff is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,161 people and just one neighborhood, White Bluff is the 146th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, White Bluff is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, White Bluff is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in White Bluff who work in sales jobs (22.27%), management occupations (14.82%), and office and administrative support (9.40%).

Also of interest is that White Bluff has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.52% 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.

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

One downside of living in White Bluff, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.23 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of White Bluff are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.99% of adults in White Bluff have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in White Bluff in 2022 was $35,852, 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 $143,408 for a family of four. However, White Bluff contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call White Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in White Bluff include Irish, English, German, European, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in White Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

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 White Bluff, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

The Neighbors

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 White Bluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.6% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.5%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.8% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 White Bluff, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.4%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (50.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (14.0%) . 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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