Mountain City is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,463 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mountain City is the 198th largest community in Tennessee.Mountain City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mountain City is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mountain City who work in management occupations (12.35%), sales jobs (11.03%), and maintenance occupations (9.26%). Also of interest is that Mountain City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.45% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Mountain City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Mountain City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Mountain City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Mountain City may be for you. Mountain City 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 population of Mountain City has a very low overall level of education: only 8.92% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Mountain City in 2022 was $25,312, 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 $101,248 for a family of four. However, Mountain City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mountain City also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.17% of its population below the federal poverty line.Mountain City is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mountain City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mountain City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mountain City include German, English, Italian, Irish, and French. The most common language spoken in Mountain City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
