Ooltewah is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 684 people and five associated neighborhoods, Ooltewah is the 313th largest community in Tennessee. Ooltewah real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Ooltewah house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Ooltewah is a blue-collar town, with 39.05% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ooltewah is a town of service providers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ooltewah who work in management occupations (28.57%), personal care services (17.14%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.52%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 23.33% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.Because there are quite a few people attending college in Ooltewah, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Ooltewah provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities. 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!) Ooltewah 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. Ooltewah has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ooltewah than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ooltewah may be for you. Ooltewah 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.The citizens of Ooltewah are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.54% of adults in Ooltewah having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Ooltewah in 2022 was $41,149, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,596 for a family of four. However, Ooltewah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Ooltewah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ooltewah residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Ooltewah include English, Irish, German, French Canadian, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in Ooltewah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian and African languages.
