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Wartburg, TN

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Overview


Wartburg is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 903 people and just one neighborhood, Wartburg is the 293rd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Wartburg is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Wartburg is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wartburg who work in office and administrative support (13.46%), management occupations (9.89%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.79%).

Of important note, Wartburg is also a city of artists. Wartburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Wartburg’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Wartburg who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.55% of the adults in Wartburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Wartburg in 2022 was $18,307, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,228 for a family of four. However, Wartburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Wartburg also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.18% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.5% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Wartburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.0% of U.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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (24.1%), and 20.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Wartburg, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (91.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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