Strawberry Plains is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,405 people and three associated neighborhoods, Strawberry Plains is the 199th largest community in Tennessee.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Strawberry Plains is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.76% of the Strawberry Plains workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Strawberry Plains is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Strawberry Plains who work in teaching (10.18%), sales jobs (8.38%), and management occupations (8.07%). 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!) Strawberry Plains 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. Strawberry Plains has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Strawberry Plains than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Strawberry Plains may be for you. One downside of living in Strawberry Plains is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Strawberry Plains, the average commute to work is 32.80 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Strawberry Plains doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The percentage of people in Strawberry Plains with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.87% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Strawberry Plains in 2022 was $25,593, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,372 for a family of four. However, Strawberry Plains contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Strawberry Plains home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Strawberry Plains residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Strawberry Plains include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish. The most common language spoken in Strawberry Plains is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
