Russellville is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 822 people and just one neighborhood, Russellville is the 294th largest community in Tennessee.
Russellville is a blue-collar town, with 38.01% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Russellville is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Russellville who work in management occupations (34.93%), teaching (7.53%), and healthcare suport services (6.85%).
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!) Russellville 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. Russellville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Russellville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Russellville may be for you.
Being a small town, Russellville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Russellville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.88% of adults in Russellville have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Russellville in 2022 was $27,432, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,728 for a family of four. However, Russellville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Russellville is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Russellville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Russellville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Russellville include English, Scottish, German, European, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Russellville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian 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.
Significantly, 1.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Russellville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.2% 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, 31.6% 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 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.7%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Russellville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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.