Dunlap is a somewhat small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 5,804 people and four associated neighborhoods, Dunlap is the 109th largest community in Tennessee.Dunlap is a blue-collar town, with 40.27% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dunlap is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dunlap who work in maintenance occupations (11.32%), sales jobs (9.42%), and food service (6.87%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.87% 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 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!) Dunlap 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. Dunlap has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Dunlap than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Dunlap may be for you. As is often the case in a small city, Dunlap doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In Dunlap, just 12.73% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%. The per capita income in Dunlap in 2022 was $18,740, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,960 for a family of four. However, Dunlap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Dunlap also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.62% of its population below the federal poverty line.Dunlap is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Dunlap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dunlap residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Dunlap include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European. The most common language spoken in Dunlap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
