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Adamsville, TN

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Overview


Adamsville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,259 people and just one neighborhood, Adamsville is the 208th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Adamsville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 41.69% of the Adamsville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Adamsville is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Adamsville who work in management occupations (13.33%), office and administrative support (8.19%), and food service (7.21%).

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

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

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Adamsville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.48% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Adamsville in 2018 was $24,411, 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 $97,644 for a family of four. However, Adamsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Adamsville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese 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 Adamsville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.5% of U.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, 41.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.3%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

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 Adamsville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (13.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.9%), and residents who report German roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (3.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.4%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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