Yuma is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 103 people and just one neighborhood, Yuma is the 387th largest community in Tennessee. Yuma has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Yuma is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 56.67% of the Yuma workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Yuma is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yuma who work in sales jobs (40.00%), office and administrative support (3.33%), and personal care services (0.00%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 20.00% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Overall, Yuma’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Yuma 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. Yuma has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yuma than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yuma may be for you.
In Yuma, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.00 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Yuma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Yuma has a very low overall level of education: only 8.20% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Yuma in 2022 was $25,354, 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 $101,416 for a family of four.
The people who call Yuma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yuma residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Yuma include English, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Yuma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and African languages.
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 Yuma, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 43.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.3% 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.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
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 Yuma are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.7% of U.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, 35.5% 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 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (25.0%), and 12.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% 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 Yuma, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.4%), and residents who report German roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swiss ancestry (2.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 (36.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.8%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.