Overall, Leoma’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Leoma has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Leoma has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Leoma than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Leoma may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Leoma spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.50 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Leoma is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Leoma, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Leoma is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In Leoma, just 7.43% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Leoma in 2022 was $26,367, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $105,468 for a family of four. However, Leoma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Leoma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Leoma residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Leoma include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Leoma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
