Decherd is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,444 people and two associated neighborhoods, Decherd is the 200th largest community in Tennessee.Decherd is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Decherd is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Decherd who work in healthcare suport services (20.17%), sales jobs (10.04%), and office and administrative support (8.66%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.73% 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. It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Decherd 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. Decherd has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Decherd than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Decherd may be for you. Being a small city, Decherd does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Decherd, just 8.52% 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 Decherd in 2022 was $21,632, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,528 for a family of four. Decherd is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Decherd home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Decherd residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Decherd include Irish, English, German, Scots-Irish, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Decherd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
