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Dresden, TN

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Overview


Dresden is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,981 people and just one neighborhood, Dresden is the 175th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Dresden, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.61% of Dresden’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dresden is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Dresden who work in healthcare (7.39%), office and administrative support (6.71%), and sales jobs (6.03%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Dresden is worth considering.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Dresden rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.33% of adults 25 and older in Dresden have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Dresden in 2022 was $39,952, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,808 for a family of four. However, Dresden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.6%) living in the neighborhood.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh 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 Dresden are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.5% 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 67.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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In the neighborhood, 42.3% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 14.7% 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

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 Dresden, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.8%), and residents who report Welsh roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 (41.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.2%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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