Estill Springs is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,277 people and just one neighborhood, Estill Springs is the 207th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Estill Springs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.11% of the Estill Springs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Estill Springs is a town of production and manufacturing workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Estill Springs who work in teaching (10.56%), sales jobs (9.19%), and management occupations (8.82%).
A relatively large number of people in Estill Springs telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.28% 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.
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!) Estill Springs 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. Estill Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Estill Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Estill Springs may be for you.
Being a small town, Estill Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Estill Springs who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.86% of the adults in Estill Springs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Estill Springs in 2022 was $26,187, 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 $104,748 for a family of four. However, Estill Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Estill Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Estill Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Estill Springs include German, English, Irish, Nigerian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Estill Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Polish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Estill Springs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.8%), and 10.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Estill Springs, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (4.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.