Tupman is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 177 people and just one neighborhood, Tupman is the 841st largest community in California.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Tupman is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.42% of the Tupman workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Tupman is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tupman who work in teaching (18.18%), office and administrative support (12.12%), and sales jobs (10.61%).
The overall crime rate in Tupman 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.
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!) Tupman 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. Tupman has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Tupman than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Tupman may be for you.
Being a small town, Tupman does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Tupman are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.91% of adults in Tupman have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Tupman in 2022 was $25,406, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,624 for a family of four. However, Tupman contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tupman also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.29% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Tupman is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tupman home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tupman residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Tupman include Irish, English, Welsh, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Tupman is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.6% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 6.8% 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 5.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Tupman are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.4% 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 59.8% 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, 40.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.1%), and 10.6% 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 71.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.4%).
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 Tupman, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 13.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (32.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (11.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.