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South Pittsburg, TN

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Overview


South Pittsburg is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,976 people and just one neighborhood, South Pittsburg is the 172nd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

South Pittsburg is a blue-collar town, with 56.35% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, South Pittsburg is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Pittsburg who work in sales jobs (7.12%), personal care services (6.75%), and food service (6.38%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) South Pittsburg 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. South Pittsburg has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in South Pittsburg than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, South Pittsburg may be for you.

Being a small city, South Pittsburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In South Pittsburg, just 8.43% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in South Pittsburg in 2022 was $27,728, 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 $110,912 for a family of four. However, South Pittsburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in South Pittsburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Langs. of India and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (27.1%) than in 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.8% of American neighborhoods.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in South Pittsburg is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TN, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.5% of the neighborhoods in Tennessee. If you are considering retiring to Tennessee, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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 South Pittsburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% 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, 44.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.0%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 South Pittsburg, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (65.3%) 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 (27.1%) . 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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