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Cunningham, TN

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Overview


Cunningham is a somewhat small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 6,085 people and just one neighborhood, Cunningham is the 105th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cunningham is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.01% of the Cunningham workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cunningham is a town of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Cunningham who work in office and administrative support (11.14%), maintenance occupations (10.27%), and sales jobs (5.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Cunningham 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. Cunningham has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cunningham than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cunningham may be for you.

One downside of living in Cunningham is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cunningham, the average commute to work is 34.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Cunningham does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Cunningham citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.35% of adults 25 and older in Cunningham have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cunningham in 2022 was $30,859, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,436 for a family of four. However, Cunningham contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in Cunningham 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 Cunningham, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Cunningham are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 61.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 34.1% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.4%), and 11.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Cunningham, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (20.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.7%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.4%), 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 (38.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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