Leoma’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!) Leoma 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. Leoma has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leoma than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leoma may be for you.
One of the benefits of Leoma is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.50 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Leoma is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Leoma, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Being a small town, Leoma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Leoma have a very low rate of college education: just 7.43% 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 Leoma in 2022 was $26,367, 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 $105,468 for a family of four. However, Leoma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Leoma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leoma residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Leoma include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Leoma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
