Sharps Chapel is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,613 people and just one neighborhood, Sharps Chapel is the 192nd largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Sharps Chapel, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Sharps Chapel, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Sharps Chapel’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Sharps Chapel does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $74,167.00.
Sharps Chapel real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Sharps Chapel house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Sharps Chapel isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sharps Chapel are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sharps Chapel is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sharps Chapel who work in sales jobs (13.09%), healthcare (10.49%), and management occupations (10.23%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 21.08% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Sharps Chapel has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Sharps Chapel a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Sharps Chapel, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.46 minutes every day commuting to work.
Sharps Chapel 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.
In terms of college education, Sharps Chapel is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 19.21% of adults 25 and older in Sharps Chapel have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sharps Chapel in 2022 was $37,580, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,320 for a family of four. However, Sharps Chapel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Sharps Chapel home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sharps Chapel residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Sharps Chapel include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Sharps Chapel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 38.0%, which is higher than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 29 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 92.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (12.2%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
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 Sharps Chapel are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.0% 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, 38.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.6%), and 10.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.5%).
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 Sharps Chapel, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.0%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.8%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (58.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (12.2%) and 8.5% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.