Mascot is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,760 people and just one neighborhood, Mascot is the 182nd largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mascot, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mascot, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mascot’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mascot does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $53,663.00.
When you are in Mascot, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.14% of Mascot’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mascot is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mascot who work in healthcare (14.35%), sales jobs (10.44%), and office and administrative support (10.30%).
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, Mascot has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mascot a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Mascot 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.
The percentage of adults in Mascot with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.41% of adults in Mascot have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mascot in 2022 was $27,989, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,956 for a family of four. However, Mascot contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mascot is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mascot home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mascot residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mascot also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mascot include Irish, German, Dutch, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mascot is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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 Mascot are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 7.8% 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 55.7% of America'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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.5%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Mascot, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (9.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (3.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.6%), among others.
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 (40.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.