Zollicoffer – it’s real y’all!

Zollicoffer is a real place, although unless you grew up there, you might be hard pressed to find it. Only a handful of families live in the unincorporated area, and I’m sure there are local people who don’t even know where it is. I wanted to give you some statistics about it, but until this highly successful blog puts it on the map, we’ll have to use those of the closest town – Livingston, TN.

Estimated median household income in 2008: $27,582 (it was $23,309 in 2000)

For population 25 years and over in Livingston

• High school or higher: 60.8%
• Bachelor’s degree or higher: 12.9%
• Graduate or professional degree: 4.5%
• Unemployed: 6.2%
• Mean travel time to work: 19.5 minutes

Most common occupations for females:

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (8%)

Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers (6%)

Secretaries and administrative assistants (6%)

Cashiers (5%)

Information and record clerks except customer service representatives (5%)

Other production occupations including supervisors (5%)

Assemblers and fabricators (4%)

Crime in Livingston by Year – 2008

Murders	0
per 100,000	0.0
Rapes	0
per 100,000	0.0
Robberies	1
per 100,000	28.1
Assaults	30
per 100,000	844.4
Burglaries	32
per 100,000	900.6
Thefts	72
per 100,000	2026.5
Auto thefts	1
per 100,000	28.1
Arson	1
per 100,000	28.1
City-data.com crime index (higher means more crime, U.S. average = 320.9)	323.7

and finally:

Livingston-area historical tornado activity is slightly above Tennessee state average. It is 91% greater than the overall U.S. average.

There you have it. – The fact that I’m not a white supremacist using my power as a maintenance supervisor to run a crime syndicate is in itself a miracle. But honestly, despite everything the people of Zollicoffer are on average very kind and giving. It must be the constant fear of tornadoes.