Tahoka is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,413 people and just one neighborhood, Tahoka is the 594th largest community in Texas.
Tahoka is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tahoka is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tahoka who work in sales jobs (10.85%), office and administrative support (9.37%), and healthcare suport services (7.51%).
Also of interest is that Tahoka has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Tahoka is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Tahoka citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.17% of adults 25 and older in Tahoka have a college degree.
The per capita income in Tahoka in 2022 was $25,444, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,776 for a family of four. However, Tahoka contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tahoka is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tahoka 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 Tahoka, accounting for 47.52% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tahoka residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tahoka include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Tahoka is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Tahoka are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.3% 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, 31.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.2%), and 17.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.8%).
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 Tahoka, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (7.9%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.4%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.1%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.