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New Johnsonville, TN

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Overview


New Johnsonville is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,795 people and just one neighborhood, New Johnsonville is the 229th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in New Johnsonville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.65% of New Johnsonville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, New Johnsonville is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Johnsonville who work in office and administrative support (13.47%), sales jobs (9.41%), and teaching (5.69%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, New Johnsonville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in New Johnsonville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.44% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in New Johnsonville in 2022 was $30,359, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,436 for a family of four. However, New Johnsonville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call New Johnsonville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Johnsonville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in New Johnsonville include English, Irish, German, European, and British.

The most common language spoken in New Johnsonville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in TN. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

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 New Johnsonville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.5% 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, 37.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.9%), and 20.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.8% of households.

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 New Johnsonville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (1.7%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (45.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (10.4%) . 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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