Ten Mile is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,536 people and just one neighborhood, Ten Mile is the 164th largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Ten Mile is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ten Mile is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ten Mile who work in sales jobs (12.32%), management occupations (11.28%), and food service (8.40%).
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!) Ten Mile 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. Ten Mile has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ten Mile than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ten Mile may be for you.
One downside of living in Ten Mile, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.92 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Ten Mile doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Ten Mile, just 11.35% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ten Mile in 2022 was $29,329, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,316 for a family of four. However, Ten Mile contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Ten Mile home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ten Mile residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Ten Mile include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Ten Mile is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Tagalog.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.6%) than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.2% 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.
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 Ten Mile are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.6% 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.
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, 34.4% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (29.0%), and 6.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.3% of households.
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 Ten Mile, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (17.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (29.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (68.1%) 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 (27.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.