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Alexandria, TN

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Overview


Alexandria is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 990 people and just one neighborhood, Alexandria is the 279th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Alexandria is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Alexandria is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Alexandria who work in office and administrative support (16.27%), management occupations (13.29%), and sales jobs (9.33%).

Also of interest is that Alexandria has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Alexandria is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Alexandria, the average commute to work is 38.61 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Alexandria does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Alexandria with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.55% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Alexandria in 2022 was $22,253, which is low income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,012 for a family of four. However, Alexandria contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Alexandria is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alexandria home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alexandria residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Alexandria include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Welsh.

The most common language spoken in Alexandria is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Alexandria, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 42 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.6% of America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Alexandria are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.8% 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, 36.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Alexandria, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (8.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (1.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (74.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.6%) and 5.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.


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