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Minor Hill, TN

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Overview


Minor Hill is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 510 people and just one neighborhood, Minor Hill is the 336th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Minor Hill is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.63% of the Minor Hill workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Minor Hill is a city of professionals, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Minor Hill who work in food service (12.42%), office and administrative support (7.05%), and sales jobs (7.05%).

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

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Minor Hill has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Minor Hill’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

In Minor Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.48 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Minor Hill is a small city, 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 Minor Hill has a very low overall level of education: only 9.83% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Minor Hill in 2018 was $24,219, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,876 for a family of four. However, Minor Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Minor Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Minor Hill neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 36 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 91.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English and Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 22.5% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry and 22.9% have Irish ancestry.

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 Minor Hill are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.1%), and 17.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Minor Hill, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (22.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (22.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (38.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (15.1%) . 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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