Riceville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 688 people and just one neighborhood, Riceville is the 312th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Riceville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.62% of the Riceville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Riceville is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Riceville who work in office and administrative support (27.89%), management occupations (14.93%), and teaching (9.01%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Riceville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Riceville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Riceville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Riceville may be for you.
Being a small town, Riceville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Riceville is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.94% of adults 25 and older in Riceville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Riceville in 2022 was $25,621, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,484 for a family of four. However, Riceville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Riceville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Riceville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Riceville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Riceville include Irish, German, English, Portuguese, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Riceville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Riceville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
Our research reveals that 90.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 3.1% have Dominican ancestry.
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 Riceville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 68.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 37.4% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.0%), and 15.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 93.7% 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 Riceville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report English roots (11.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (7.3%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 (48.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (90.3%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.