Tacna is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 425 people and just one neighborhood, Tacna is the 172nd largest community in Arizona.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tacna is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.46% of the Tacna workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tacna is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tacna who work in farm management occupations (23.21%), food service (18.14%), and office and administrative support (17.30%).
In addition, many people in Tacna have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
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!) Tacna 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. Tacna has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tacna than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tacna may be for you.
One of the benefits of Tacna is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.45 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Tacna does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Tacna who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.93% of the adults in Tacna have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tacna in 2022 was $28,602, which is middle income relative to Arizona, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $114,408 for a family of four. However, Tacna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tacna is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tacna 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 Tacna, accounting for 62.60% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tacna residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Tacna include French, German, Swedish, Scots-Irish, and Norwegian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Tacna's cultural character, accounting for 19.08% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Tacna is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 32.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.7% 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.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 59.0% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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, 60.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Tacna are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 32.2% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 13.5% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 59.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (40.8%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Tacna, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (60.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.1%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (2.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 18.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (59.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.5%) 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 (10.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.