Cosby is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 807 people and two associated neighborhoods, Cosby is the 297th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cosby is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cosby is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cosby who work in business and financial occupations (19.30%), sales jobs (15.44%), and management occupations (15.09%). Also of interest is that Cosby has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.54% 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. 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, Cosby has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cosby a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Cosby, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 47.14 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Being a small town, Cosby does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of Cosby citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.32% of adults in Cosby have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Cosby in 2022 was $25,353, 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 $101,412 for a family of four. The people who call Cosby home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cosby residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cosby include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Finnish. The most common language spoken in Cosby is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
