About Lookout Mountain

Lookout Mountain is a very small town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 2,000 people and just one neighborhood, Lookout Mountain is the 250th largest community in Tennessee. Much of the housing stock in Lookout Mountain was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Lookout Mountain is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 94.42% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Lookout Mountain is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lookout Mountain who work in management occupations (24.16%), sales jobs (18.70%), and business and financial occupations (9.48%).

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

In addition, Lookout Mountain is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Lookout Mountain is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lookout Mountain isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.45% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Lookout Mountain doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Lookout Mountain Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Lookout Mountain, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Lookout Mountain is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 71.09% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 14.96%.

The per capita income in Lookout Mountain in 2000 was $60,938, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $243,752 for a family of four. However, Lookout Mountain contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Lookout Mountain home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lookout Mountain is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lookout Mountain include English, German, Irish, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Lookout Mountain is English.