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Tatum, TX

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Overview


Tatum is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,377 people and just one neighborhood, Tatum is the 760th largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Tatum, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Tatum, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Tatum’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Tatum does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $70,708.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tatum is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.29% of the Tatum workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tatum is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tatum who work in office and administrative support (16.95%), healthcare (9.55%), and sales jobs (6.93%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.41% 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 Tatum 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.

Residents will find that the city is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Tatum is worth considering.

Being a small city, Tatum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Tatum are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.54% of adults in Tatum have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Tatum in 2022 was $31,887, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,548 for a family of four. However, Tatum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tatum is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tatum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tatum residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tatum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.49% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tatum include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Austrian.

The most common language spoken in Tatum is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry.

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 Tatum are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 29.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.7% of U.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, 32.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 28.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.8%), and 14.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.4%).

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 Tatum, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report English roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.5%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.8%) 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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