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Monroe, TN

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Overview


Monroe is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,708 people and just one neighborhood, Monroe is the 239th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Monroe, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.65% of Monroe’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Monroe is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Monroe who work in management occupations (12.42%), healthcare (9.01%), and maintenance occupations (8.39%).

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, Monroe is worth considering.

One downside of living in Monroe is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Monroe, the average commute to work is 33.58 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Monroe are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.15% of adults in Monroe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Monroe in 2022 was $38,210, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,840 for a family of four. However, Monroe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Monroe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Monroe residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Monroe include English, German, Scottish, Irish, and Portuguese.

The most common language spoken in Monroe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Greek and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 89.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.0% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.5% of all 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 Monroe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.3% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 70.3% of America'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, 34.6% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (29.0%), and 4.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 100.0% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Monroe, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (89.0%) 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.


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