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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 993 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 $74,886.00.

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

Orlinda is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Orlinda is a city of managers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Orlinda who work in management occupations (21.48%), business and financial occupations (12.25%), and office and administrative support (9.40%).

A relatively large number of people in Orlinda telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.05% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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, 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 37.90 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Orlinda rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.08% of adults 25 and older in Orlinda have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Orlinda in 2022 was $40,038, which is wealthy relative to Tennessee, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,152 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, German, English, French, and Scots-Irish.

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

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 French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.6% of this neighborhood's residents have French Canadian ancestry.

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 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 67.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.2% 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 70.3% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 37.0% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 11.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).

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 (11.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (30.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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