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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

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Loretto is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-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

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

Demographics

The citizens of Loretto are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 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

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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 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.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

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

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

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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