Drummonds is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 4,709 people and just one neighborhood, Drummonds is the 122nd largest community in Tennessee.
Drummonds is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Drummonds is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Drummonds who work in office and administrative support (12.78%), sales jobs (10.16%), and management occupations (7.87%).
Also of interest is that Drummonds 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: 8.20% 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 town 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!) Drummonds 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. Drummonds has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Drummonds than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Drummonds may be for you.
In Drummonds, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.46 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Drummonds 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.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Drummonds rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.80% of adults 25 and older in Drummonds have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Drummonds in 2022 was $27,763, 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 $111,052 for a family of four. However, Drummonds contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Drummonds is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Drummonds home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Drummonds residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Drummonds include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Drummonds is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Significantly, 0.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Drummonds are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.8% 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, 32.8% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.5%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).
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 Drummonds, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.0%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 (43.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (9.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.