Wildersville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 161 people and just one neighborhood, Wildersville is the 383rd largest community in Tennessee.
Wildersville is a blue-collar town, with 44.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wildersville is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wildersville who work in teaching (24.64%), office and administrative support (18.84%), and architecture and engineering (11.59%).
Overall, Wildersville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wildersville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wildersville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Wildersville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.52 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Wildersville is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Wildersville, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Wildersville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Wildersville overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Wildersville, 22.88% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Wildersville in 2022 was $24,101, 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 $96,404 for a family of four. However, Wildersville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Wildersville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wildersville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Wildersville include Italian, Scottish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Wildersville is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
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 Wildersville, 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 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Wildersville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.5% 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, 40.5% 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 34.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 9.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households.
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 Wildersville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.