McDonald is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 586 people and two associated neighborhoods, McDonald is the 325th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in McDonald was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, McDonald is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.13% of the McDonald workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, McDonald is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McDonald who work in sales jobs (18.13%), healthcare (15.66%), and maintenance occupations (7.97%). Also of interest is that McDonald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. In addition, McDonald is a college town. There are a lot of students in McDonald attending college, and as a result McDonald provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students. 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!) McDonald 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. McDonald has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McDonald than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McDonald may be for you. Being a small town, McDonald does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The education level of McDonald citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.07% of adults in McDonald have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in McDonald in 2022 was $32,087, 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 $128,348 for a family of four. However, McDonald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McDonald is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McDonald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McDonald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McDonald include Scots-Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in McDonald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Langs. of India.
