Oliver Springs is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 3,354 people and two associated neighborhoods, Oliver Springs is the 170th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Oliver Springs is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oliver Springs is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oliver Springs who work in office and administrative support (9.52%), healthcare (8.73%), and maintenance occupations (8.12%). Also of interest is that Oliver Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Oliver Springs 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. Oliver Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Oliver Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Oliver Springs may be for you. Being a small town, Oliver Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Oliver Springs, just 6.46% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Oliver Springs in 2022 was $23,477, 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 $93,908 for a family of four. However, Oliver Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Oliver Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oliver Springs residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Oliver Springs include Irish, European, German, English, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Oliver Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
