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Darden, TN

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Overview


Darden is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 364 people and just one neighborhood, Darden is the 353rd largest community in Tennessee. Darden has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Darden, where the median household income is .

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Darden is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.11% of the Darden workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Darden is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Darden who work in computer science and math (13.96%), business and financial occupations (5.86%), and food service (5.41%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Darden telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.67% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Darden’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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!) Darden 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. Darden has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Darden than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Darden may be for you.

In Darden, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.53 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Darden is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.27% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Darden in 2022 was $39,910, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $159,640 for a family of four. However, Darden contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Darden home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Darden residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Darden include Dutch, Irish, German, Scottish, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Darden is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 28 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

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 Darden are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 55.2% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 8.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.3% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.4%).

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 Darden, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (4.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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