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Gates, TN

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Overview


Gates is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 659 people and just one neighborhood, Gates is the 315th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gates is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.91% of the Gates workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gates is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gates who work in healthcare (11.21%), healthcare suport services (9.42%), and sales jobs (8.97%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Gates is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gates, the average commute to work is 35.25 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Gates 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 population of Gates has a very low overall level of education: only 9.66% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Gates in 2022 was $19,543, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,172 for a family of four. However, Gates contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gates is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gates home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gates residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Gates include Irish, German, Italian, English, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Gates is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

The Neighbors

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 Gates are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.4% of America'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, 29.2% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 18.8% 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 94.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.6%).

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 Gates, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (10.5%) . 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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