Rutledge is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,331 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rutledge is the 262nd largest community in Tennessee.Rutledge is a blue-collar town, with 44.20% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Rutledge is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rutledge who work in food service (10.75%), office and administrative support (8.36%), and healthcare (7.51%). 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, Rutledge has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Rutledge a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Rutledge does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Rutledge with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.49% of adults in Rutledge have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Rutledge in 2022 was $28,087, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,348 for a family of four. However, Rutledge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Rutledge home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rutledge residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rutledge include Irish, English, German, European, and Belgian. The most common language spoken in Rutledge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
