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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

When you are in Cunningham, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.01% of Cunningham’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. 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

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Cunningham is worth considering.

One downside of living in Cunningham, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.53 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Cunningham doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cunningham is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.35% of adults 25 and older in Cunningham have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 95.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a 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.

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, 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

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

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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