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.
Tom Bean is a blue-collar town, with 37.04% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.80% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Overall, Tom Bean’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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.
The percentage of adults in Tom Bean who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.28% of the adults in Tom Bean have a bachelor's degree or advanced 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.
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 87.3% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children.
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 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.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.9%).
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 (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.
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.