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Ardmore - Elkton, TN

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Overview


Ardmore - Elkton is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,065 people and just one neighborhood, Ardmore - Elkton is the 173rd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Ardmore - Elkton isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Ardmore - Elkton are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Ardmore - Elkton is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ardmore - Elkton who work in management occupations (16.79%), office and administrative support (8.44%), and healthcare suport services (7.70%).

Also of interest is that Ardmore - Elkton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Ardmore - Elkton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 21.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

In Ardmore - Elkton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Ardmore - Elkton is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Ardmore - Elkton citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.30% of adults in Ardmore - Elkton have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ardmore - Elkton in 2022 was $30,785, 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 $123,140 for a family of four. However, Ardmore - Elkton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ardmore - Elkton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ardmore - Elkton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ardmore - Elkton include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Ardmore - Elkton is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Ardmore - Elkton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

The Neighbors

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 Ardmore - Elkton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 39.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Ardmore - Elkton, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (67.8%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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