Elmwood is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,172 people and just one neighborhood, Elmwood is the 213th largest community in Tennessee.
Elmwood is a blue-collar town, with 42.35% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Elmwood is a town of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elmwood who work in office and administrative support (17.29%), food service (12.00%), and teaching (5.76%).
Also of interest is that Elmwood has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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, Elmwood is worth considering.
One downside of living in Elmwood, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.02 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Elmwood doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Elmwood, just 10.58% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Elmwood in 2022 was $24,194, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,776 for a family of four. However, Elmwood contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Elmwood home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elmwood residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Elmwood include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Elmwood is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Korean.
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.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 35.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 37 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.4% of 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 Elmwood are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.4% 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, 41.4% 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 19.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 19.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.5% 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 Elmwood, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (6.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.1%), and residents who report English roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.7%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (10.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.