Doyle is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 513 people and just one neighborhood, Doyle is the 337th largest community in Tennessee.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Doyle is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.70% of the Doyle workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Doyle is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Doyle who work in office and administrative support (25.63%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.04%), and sales jobs (5.03%).
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, Doyle has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Doyle a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Doyle is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Doyle is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.20% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Doyle in 2022 was $16,290, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,160 for a family of four. However, Doyle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Doyle is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Doyle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Doyle residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Doyle include Irish, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Doyle is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and African languages.
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Significantly, 2.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Doyle are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.5% 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, 36.8% 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 (19.8%), and 14.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 97.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Doyle, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.6%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.2%) 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.