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Copperhill - Ducktown, TN

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Overview


Copperhill - Ducktown is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,613 people and just one neighborhood, Copperhill - Ducktown is the 162nd largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Copperhill - Ducktown is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Copperhill - Ducktown is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Copperhill - Ducktown who work in maintenance occupations (10.82%), sales jobs (8.28%), and management occupations (7.32%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Copperhill - Ducktown has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Copperhill - Ducktown a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Copperhill - Ducktown, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 30.87 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The education level of Copperhill - Ducktown citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.48% of adults 25 and older in Copperhill - Ducktown have a college degree.

The per capita income in Copperhill - Ducktown in 2022 was $28,373, 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 $113,492 for a family of four. However, Copperhill - Ducktown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Copperhill - Ducktown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Copperhill - Ducktown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.

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 Copperhill - Ducktown are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.4% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.0%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Copperhill - Ducktown, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (12.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (34.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (12.9%) . 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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