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Sale Creek, TN

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Overview


Sale Creek is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,021 people and just one neighborhood, Sale Creek is the 174th largest community in Tennessee.

Sale Creek real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Sale Creek house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Sale Creek isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sale Creek are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sale Creek is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sale Creek who work in management occupations (16.64%), office and administrative support (14.81%), and sales jobs (14.37%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Sale Creek is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Sale Creek really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Sale Creek perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Sale Creek is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Sale Creek, the average commute to work is 35.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Sale Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Sale Creek with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.33% of adults in Sale Creek have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sale Creek in 2022 was $33,462, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,848 for a family of four. However, Sale Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Sale Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 5.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Tennessee. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 24.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 22.7% have English 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 Sale Creek are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.4% 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, 38.2% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.3%), and 15.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.5%).

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 Sale Creek, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (24.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (22.7%), and residents who report German roots (13.2%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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