Rossville is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,124 people and two associated neighborhoods, Rossville is the 275th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Rossville was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Rossville economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Rossville, where the median household income is $117,500.00. Rossville home prices are not only among the most expensive in Tennessee, but Rossville real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Rossville is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rossville is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rossville who work in management occupations (22.07%), office and administrative support (10.49%), and healthcare (8.95%). Also of interest is that Rossville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. A relatively large number of people in Rossville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.78% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Because of many things, Rossville 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, Rossville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Rossville 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. 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!) Rossville 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. Rossville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rossville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rossville may be for you. One downside of living in Rossville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Rossville, the average commute to work is 32.12 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Rossville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Rossville is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.76% of adults in Rossville have a college degree. The per capita income in Rossville in 2022 was $54,382, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $217,528 for a family of four. Rossville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Rossville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rossville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rossville include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Rossville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Spanish.
