About Bishop

Bishop is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,315 people and just one neighborhood, Bishop is the 438th largest community in Texas.

Bishop is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bishop is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bishop who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.59%), teaching (10.08%), and sales jobs (9.21%).

One of the benefits of Bishop is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.90 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.

Bishop is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Bishop isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 98.04% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

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

Bishop Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Bishop who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 14.34% of the adults in Bishop have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bishop in 2000 was $14,974, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $59,896 for a family of four.

Bishop is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bishop home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Bishop is White, followed by African-American. Bishop also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 59.82% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Bishop include German, Irish, and English.

The most common language spoken in Bishop is English. Some people also speak Spanish.