Lookout Mountain vs Tidmore Bend

A side-by-side comparison of Lookout Mountain and Tidmore Bend: population, income, housing, and more.

Lookout Mountain and Tidmore Bend are places in Alabama. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Tidmore Bend has the higher population (1,086 vs 1,074 in Lookout Mountain). Tidmore Bend has the higher median household income ($49,688 vs $43,472 in Lookout Mountain). Tidmore Bend has the higher median home value ($184,700 vs $95,500 in Lookout Mountain).

Population, income & housing

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
Population	1,074	1,086
Median age	52.4 yrs	48.8 yrs
Median household income	$43,472	$49,688
Median home value	$95,500	$184,700
Median gross rent	—	$975
Housing units	567	476
Homeownership rate	94.8%	81.7%
Bachelor's degree or higher	6.8%	17.0%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	5.1%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
Population	1,884 → 1,074 (-43.0%)	1,221 → 1,086 (-11.1%)
Median household income	$39,559 → $43,472 (+9.9%)	$51,250 → $49,688 (-3.0%)
Median home value	$92,300 → $95,500 (+3.5%)	$90,800 → $184,700 (+103.4%)
Median gross rent	—	$767 → $975 (+27.1%)

Lookout Mountain

Population

1,8841,074

Median household income

$39,559$43,472

Median home value

$92,300$95,500

Tidmore Bend

Population

1,2211,086

Median household income

$51,250$49,688

Median home value

$90,800$184,700

Median gross rent

$767$975

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
Under 5	0.7%	7.9%
5 to 17	14.4%	10.4%
18 to 24	7.3%	7.4%
25 to 34	5.8%	13.3%
35 to 44	4.2%	8.7%
45 to 54	20.9%	15.3%
55 to 64	20.9%	9.9%
65 to 74	12.8%	17.1%
75 and over	13.1%	10.0%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
White (non-Hispanic)	96.6%	78.5%
Black or African American	2.9%	7.4%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.3%
Asian	0.1%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	0.4%	13.9%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	0.0%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
No high school diploma	32.7%	6.7%
High school graduate	29.0%	29.1%
Some college or associate's	31.4%	47.2%
Bachelor's degree	2.2%	11.6%
Graduate or professional degree	4.7%	5.3%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
Drove alone	83.9%	86.1%
Carpooled	13.5%	7.2%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.6%	6.7%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
1-unit, detached	73.7%	84.5%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	26.3%	15.5%

Poverty & households

	Lookout Mountain	Tidmore Bend
Poverty rate	32.2%	9.1%
Average household size	2.44	2.28
Mean commute (minutes)	21	21
Median year structure built	1983	1986