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.
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.
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.
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.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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.
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 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.6%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
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.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – 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 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.