Counce is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 316 people and just one neighborhood, Counce is the 361st largest community in Tennessee.
When you are in Counce, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 83.93% of Counce’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Counce is a town of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Counce who work in personal care services (5.95%), management occupations (5.95%), and business and financial occupations (4.17%).
Counce’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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, Counce has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Counce a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Counce spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.40 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, Counce doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Counce with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Counce in 2022 was $28,957, 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 $115,828 for a family of four.
Counce is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Counce home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Counce residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Counce include English, Scottish, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Counce is English. Other important languages spoken here include French and Greek.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 90.1% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 42.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.9% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Our research reveals that 89.3% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Counce are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% 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, 30.1% 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 29.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.2%), and 12.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.0% 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 Counce, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (10.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report German roots (5.9%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (2.3%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.