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Tom Bean, TX

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Overview


Tom Bean is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 964 people and just one neighborhood, Tom Bean is the 837th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tom Bean is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.04% of the Tom Bean workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tom Bean is a city of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tom Bean who work in management occupations (9.38%), teaching (8.89%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.65%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.80% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Tom Bean 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.

One downside of living in Tom Bean, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.70 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small city, Tom Bean doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Tom Bean citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.28% of adults 25 and older in Tom Bean have a college degree.

The per capita income in Tom Bean in 2022 was $37,400, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,600 for a family of four.

Tom Bean is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tom Bean home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tom Bean residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Tom Bean also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tom Bean include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Tom Bean is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Tom Bean, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

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The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Tom Bean are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.6% of America'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, 38.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Tom Bean, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report German roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (81.6%) 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 (9.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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