Tekamah is a very small city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 1,715 people and just one neighborhood, Tekamah is the 133rd largest community in Nebraska. Tekamah has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Tekamah is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tekamah is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tekamah who work in office and administrative support (13.50%), teaching (11.23%), and management occupations (8.02%).
Tekamah’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small city, Tekamah does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Tekamah are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.36% of adults in Tekamah having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tekamah in 2022 was $30,598, which is lower middle income relative to Nebraska, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,392 for a family of four. However, Tekamah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Tekamah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tekamah residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Tekamah include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Tekamah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Tekamah, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 6.4% have Swedish ancestry.
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 Tekamah are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 98.4% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.8%).
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 Tekamah, NE, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (32.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.8%), and residents who report English roots (15.4%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (6.4%), along with some Danish ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.