McDonald is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 586 people and two associated neighborhoods, McDonald is the 325th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in McDonald was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.McDonald is a blue-collar town, with 43.13% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McDonald is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McDonald who work in sales jobs (18.13%), healthcare (15.66%), and maintenance occupations (7.97%). Also of interest is that McDonald has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Because there are quite a few people attending college in McDonald, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, McDonald provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities. 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, McDonald has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McDonald a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. McDonald 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, McDonald is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.07% of adults in McDonald have a college degree. The per capita income in McDonald in 2022 was $32,087, 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 $128,348 for a family of four. However, McDonald contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. McDonald is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McDonald home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McDonald residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in McDonald include Scots-Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Yugoslavian. The most common language spoken in McDonald is English. Other important languages spoken here include Slavic languages and Langs. of India.
