Tahoka is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,427 people and just one neighborhood, Tahoka is the 594th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, Tahoka isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Tahoka are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tahoka is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tahoka who work in sales jobs (10.16%), healthcare (8.99%), and office and administrative support (8.18%).
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 population of Tahoka overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Tahoka, 23.02% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Tahoka in 2022 was $30,029, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $120,116 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. The greatest number of Tahoka residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tahoka also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 45.01% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tahoka include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Tahoka is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Tahoka, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 3.7% 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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% of U.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, 36.9% 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 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.9%), and 16.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (18.6%).
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 Tahoka, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (11.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.