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Tome, NM

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Overview


Tome is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,718 people and just one neighborhood, Tome is the 85th largest community in New Mexico.

Tome real estate is some of the most expensive in New Mexico, although Tome house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Tome, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 48.88% of Tome’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tome is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tome who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (13.48%), healthcare (11.05%), and management occupations (8.99%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 38.76% 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

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Tome has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Tome has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tome than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tome may be for you.

Tome is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Tome are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.02% of adults in Tome having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Tome in 2018 was $58,137, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $232,548 for a family of four. However, Tome contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Tome is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tome home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tome residents report their race to be White. Tome also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tome include English, Irish, Italian, German, and French.

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

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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 60.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 29.6% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.5% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Tome are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% 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, 50.1% 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 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (29.6%), and 14.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 71.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.7%).

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 Tome, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.7%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.4%), along with some British ancestry residents (4.5%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.0%) 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 (6.3%) . 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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