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Tama, IA

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Overview


Tama is a very small city located in the state of Iowa. With a population of 3,064 people and just one neighborhood, Tama is the 159th largest community in Iowa.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tama is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.56% of the Tama workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tama is a city of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tama who work in sales jobs (7.94%), maintenance occupations (7.40%), and office and administrative support (7.01%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Tama is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.54% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tama in 2018 was $24,944, which is low income relative to Iowa, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,776 for a family of four. However, Tama contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tama is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tama home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tama residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Tama also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.40% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tama include German, Irish, Czech, English, and Norwegian.

In addition, Tama has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.43%).

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.2% of American neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.0% 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 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Tama are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.2% 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, 43.2% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.1%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.

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 Tama, IA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (10.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 16.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (56.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.5%) 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 (14.4%) . 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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