Tolleson is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 7,173 people and just one neighborhood, Tolleson is the 63rd largest community in Arizona. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Tolleson, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Tolleson, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Tolleson’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Tolleson does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $55,015.00.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Tolleson is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tolleson is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tolleson who work in office and administrative support (22.38%), management occupations (12.83%), and maintenance occupations (12.04%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 21.86% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
The population of Tolleson has a very low overall level of education: only 9.50% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Tolleson in 2022 was $22,083, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $88,332 for a family of four. However, Tolleson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tolleson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Tolleson is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tolleson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Tolleson, accounting for 78.57% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tolleson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tolleson include Italian, Nigerian, German, English, and Irish.
In addition, Tolleson has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.00%).
The most common language spoken in Tolleson is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 76.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Tolleson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.9% 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, 28.1% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.8%), and 19.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.2% of households. Some people also speak English (34.6%).
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 Tolleson, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (76.8%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 28.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (69.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.