Celina is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,401 people and just one neighborhood, Celina is the 254th largest community in Tennessee.
Unlike some cities, Celina isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Celina are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Celina is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Celina who work in management occupations (17.99%), healthcare (15.68%), and maintenance occupations (7.71%).
Being a small city, Celina does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Celina, just 11.41% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Celina in 2022 was $15,743, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,972 for a family of four. However, Celina contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Celina is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Celina home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Celina residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Celina include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, European, and German.
The most common language spoken in Celina is English. Other important languages spoken here include Tagalog and Spanish.
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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 33 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.2% of America.
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 Celina are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.0% 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, 31.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.2%), and 16.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.9% of households.
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 Celina, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
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 (31.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.