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Loretto, TN

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Overview


Loretto is a very small city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 1,780 people and just one neighborhood, Loretto is the 235th largest community in Tennessee.

Occupations and Workforce

Loretto is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Loretto is a city of professionals, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loretto who work in management occupations (11.49%), teaching (11.36%), and healthcare (9.27%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Loretto is worth considering.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Loretto with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.30% of adults in Loretto have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Loretto in 2022 was $26,632, 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 $106,528 for a family of four. However, Loretto contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Loretto home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loretto residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Loretto include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Loretto 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 Loretto, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 Loretto are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 8.9% 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 53.6% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.5% 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 32.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.0%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.9%).

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 Loretto, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (11.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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