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Tolleson, AZ

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Overview


Tolleson is a somewhat small city located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 7,258 people and just one neighborhood, Tolleson is the 63rd largest community in Arizona. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Tolleson, 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 Tolleson, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Tolleson’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Tolleson does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $47,875.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Tolleson is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Tolleson is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tolleson who work in office and administrative support (17.90%), management occupations (14.69%), and maintenance occupations (10.24%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 18.94% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The population of Tolleson has a very low overall level of education: only 6.44% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Tolleson in 2018 was $20,563, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $82,252 for a family of four. However, Tolleson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tolleson is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tolleson 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 Tolleson, accounting for 81.11% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tolleson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tolleson include Italian, English, Nigerian, German, and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Tolleson's cultural character, accounting for 23.99% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Tolleson is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.8% of America's neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 79.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Tolleson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% 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, 28.7% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.3%), and 21.9% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 59.1% of households. Some people also speak English (39.8%).

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 Tolleson, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (79.7%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report Sub-Saharan African roots (2.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 24.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (33.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (71.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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