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Beech Bluff, TN

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Overview


Beech Bluff is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 379 people and just one neighborhood, Beech Bluff is the 348th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Beech Bluff is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Beech Bluff is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Beech Bluff who work in healthcare (21.83%), office and administrative support (12.18%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (9.64%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Beech Bluff is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Beech Bluff has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Beech Bluff a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Beech Bluff is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Beech Bluff, the average commute to work is 33.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Beech Bluff is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Beech Bluff is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Beech Bluff has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

As is often the case in a small town, Beech Bluff doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Beech Bluff has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.05% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Beech Bluff in 2018 was $25,719, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,876 for a family of four.

Beech Bluff is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Beech Bluff home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beech Bluff residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Beech Bluff include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Beech Bluff is English. Other important languages spoken here include Portuguese and African 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.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 89.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 6.2% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Tennessee, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Tennessee.

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 Beech Bluff are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.5% 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 63.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 43.2% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.7%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% 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 Beech Bluff, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (61.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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