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," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Lookout Mountain is a very car-oriented town. 98.45% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Lookout Mountain is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Lookout Mountain has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Lookout Mountain does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

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.