The overall crime rate in Lavinia is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Lavinia 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. Lavinia has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lavinia than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lavinia may be for you.
One downside of living in Lavinia, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 43.79 minutes every day commuting to work.
Lavinia is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Lavinia isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Lavinia 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.
The population of Lavinia has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lavinia in 2022 was $32,513, 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 $130,052 for a family of four. However, Lavinia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lavinia home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lavinia residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Lavinia include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Lavinia is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish and West Germanic languages.
