Whitwell is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,621 people and two associated neighborhoods, Whitwell is the 242nd largest community in Tennessee.Whitwell is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Whitwell is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitwell who work in sales jobs (19.73%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.31%), and maintenance occupations (7.06%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.49% 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. The city 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, Whitwell has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Whitwell a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. In Whitwell, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 43.66 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Whitwell is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The citizens of Whitwell have a very low rate of college education: just 7.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities. The per capita income in Whitwell in 2022 was $27,642, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $110,568 for a family of four. However, Whitwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Whitwell is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Whitwell home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Whitwell include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and British. The most common language spoken in Whitwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
