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Dyer, TN

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Overview


Dyer is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,321 people and just one neighborhood, Dyer is the 204th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Dyer is a blue-collar town, with 53.39% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Dyer is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dyer who work in food service (10.41%), management occupations (9.44%), and healthcare (5.08%).

Setting & Lifestyle

In Dyer, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.16 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Dyer rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.49% of adults 25 and older in Dyer have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Dyer in 2022 was $23,585, 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 $94,340 for a family of four. However, Dyer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.6% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Dyer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.4% of U.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, 43.6% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 8.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.1% 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 Dyer, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (21.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.0%) 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 (19.0%) . 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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