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Gordonsville, TN

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Overview


Gordonsville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,380 people and just one neighborhood, Gordonsville is the 258th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Gordonsville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.49% of Gordonsville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gordonsville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gordonsville who work in office and administrative support (15.07%), teaching (9.96%), and management occupations (5.52%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Gordonsville 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.

Demographics

The education level of Gordonsville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.63% of adults 25 and older in Gordonsville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Gordonsville in 2022 was $33,984, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,936 for a family of four. However, Gordonsville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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.

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 Gordonsville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.8% 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 50.5% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 40.0% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.0%), and 16.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Gordonsville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report German roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.2%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (33.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (11.0%) . 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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