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Orlinda, TN

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Overview


Orlinda is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 981 people and just one neighborhood, Orlinda is the 281st largest community in Tennessee. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Orlinda, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Orlinda, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Orlinda’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Orlinda does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $84,643.00.

Orlinda real estate is some of the most expensive in Tennessee, although Orlinda house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Orlinda is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Orlinda is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orlinda who work in management occupations (25.61%), business and financial occupations (11.05%), and office and administrative support (7.72%).

Of important note, Orlinda is also a city of artists. Orlinda has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Orlinda’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

The city 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, Orlinda has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Orlinda a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Orlinda, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.99 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The citizens of Orlinda are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.20% of adults in Orlinda have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Orlinda in 2022 was $41,522, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,088 for a family of four. However, Orlinda contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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

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 Orlinda, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 2.8% have French Canadian 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 Orlinda are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% 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 58.9% 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, 36.1% 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 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.8% 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 Orlinda, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (12.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (5.3%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (31.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.9%) 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 (6.4%) . 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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