Gruetli Laager - Palmer is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,085 people and just one neighborhood, Gruetli Laager - Palmer is the 143rd largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gruetli Laager - Palmer is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.10% of the Gruetli Laager - Palmer workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gruetli Laager - Palmer is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gruetli Laager - Palmer who work in teaching (11.56%), management occupations (9.88%), and sales jobs (9.01%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.33% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Gruetli Laager - Palmer 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. Gruetli Laager - Palmer has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gruetli Laager - Palmer than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gruetli Laager - Palmer may be for you.
In Gruetli Laager - Palmer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.03 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Gruetli Laager - Palmer does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Gruetli Laager - Palmer, just 9.10% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Gruetli Laager - Palmer in 2022 was $21,036, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,144 for a family of four. However, Gruetli Laager - Palmer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Gruetli Laager - Palmer home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gruetli Laager - Palmer residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Gruetli Laager - Palmer include Irish, English, Dutch, Italian, and German.
The most common language spoken in Gruetli Laager - Palmer is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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 Gruetli Laager - Palmer, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 45 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Gruetli Laager - Palmer are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.6% 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, 35.6% 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 35.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Gruetli Laager - Palmer, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (4.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.4%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.