Tarrant is a somewhat small city located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 5,910 people and just one neighborhood, Tarrant is the 103rd largest community in Alabama.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tarrant is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.67% of the Tarrant workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tarrant is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tarrant who work in food service (10.46%), office and administrative support (8.29%), and sales jobs (7.22%).
For a small city, Tarrant has a lot of people who use public transit to get to work, and those that do mostly ride the bus. This suggests that a real need for low-cost transportation in Tarrant exists, and local transit is helping to meet that need.
In Tarrant, just 7.51% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Tarrant in 2022 was $22,706, which is lower middle income relative to Alabama, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $90,824 for a family of four. However, Tarrant contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tarrant is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tarrant home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tarrant residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Tarrant also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.43% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tarrant include German, Scottish, English, Italian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Tarrant is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.
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.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Tarrant neighborhood.
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 Tarrant are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.8% of U.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, 44.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.2%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.4%).
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 Tarrant, AL, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (7.4%). There are also a number of people of Scottish ancestry (3.4%), and residents who report German roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.1%), among others. In addition, 10.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (67.6%) 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 (16.2%) and 8.4% of residents also ride the bus for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.