Because of many things, Leoma is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Leoma really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Leoma perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
The town 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, Leoma has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Leoma a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Leoma is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.17 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Leoma does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Leoma is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.62% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Leoma in 2022 was $31,229, which is upper middle income relative to Tennessee, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,916 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, Scottish, Scots-Irish, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Leoma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
