Overview
Lobelville is a tiny city located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 968 people and just one neighborhood, Lobelville is the 285th largest community in Tennessee.
Occupations and Workforce
Lobelville is a blue-collar town, with 36.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lobelville is a city of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lobelville who work in management occupations (13.74%), teaching (10.82%), and maintenance occupations (7.89%).
Of important note, Lobelville is also a city of artists. Lobelville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Lobelville鈥檚 character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.16% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
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, Lobelville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lobelville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Lobelville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lobelville, the average commute to work is 34.79 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Lobelville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Lobelville is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.37% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lobelville in 2022 was $25,076, which is lower middle income relative to Tennessee, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,304 for a family of four. However, Lobelville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lobelville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lobelville residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lobelville include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Lobelville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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 Lobelville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 37.4% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
Furthermore, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 21 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Occupations
蘑菇视频's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.9% of American neighborhoods.
Diversity
Significantly, 6.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lobelville are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 41.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 44.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.2% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (6.5%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Lobelville, TN, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report English roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (3.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (28.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.6%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
