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Elgin - Robbins, TN

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Overview


Elgin - Robbins is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,742 people and just one neighborhood, Elgin - Robbins is the 186th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Elgin - Robbins is a blue-collar town, with 44.60% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Elgin - Robbins is a town of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elgin - Robbins who work in management occupations (12.82%), office and administrative support (9.53%), and healthcare (7.94%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Elgin - Robbins’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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, Elgin - Robbins has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elgin - Robbins a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Elgin - Robbins, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.64 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Elgin - Robbins have a very low rate of college education: just 7.25% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Elgin - Robbins in 2022 was $19,378, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,512 for a family of four. However, Elgin - Robbins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Elgin - Robbins is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 22 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Elgin - Robbins are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.6% of U.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, 44.6% 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.9%), and 13.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Elgin - Robbins, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (16.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Italian roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (7.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (5.9%), 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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.7%) 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 (12.1%) . 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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