Tom Bean is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 945 people and just one neighborhood, Tom Bean is the 837th largest community in Texas.
Tom Bean is a blue-collar town, with 41.89% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tom Bean is a city of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tom Bean who work in management occupations (12.68%), office and administrative support (8.55%), and sales jobs (8.26%).
A relatively large number of people in Tom Bean telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.17% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Tom Bean’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Tom Bean has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Tom Bean has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tom Bean than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tom Bean may be for you.
One downside of living in Tom Bean, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.84 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Tom Bean does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Tom Bean, just 12.31% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Tom Bean in 2022 was $39,664, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $158,656 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 Black or African-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 10.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tom Bean include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Welsh.
The most common language spoken in Tom Bean is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Tom Bean is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.5% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% 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.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 39.7% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.1%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Tom Bean, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.1%), and residents who report German roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (2.3%), among others.
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 (34.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.