Lyles is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 763 people and two associated neighborhoods, Lyles is the 304th largest community in Tennessee.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Lyles is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lyles is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lyles who work in food service (14.22%), sales jobs (13.16%), and healthcare suport services (8.17%). Also of interest is that Lyles has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. The town 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, Lyles has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lyles a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Lyles is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lyles, the average commute to work is 42.04 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Being a small town, Lyles does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Lyles, just 6.60% 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 Lyles in 2022 was $27,050, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,200 for a family of four. However, Lyles contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Lyles home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lyles residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lyles include English, Irish, Dutch, Portuguese, and British. The most common language spoken in Lyles is English. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
