About Whitehouse

Whitehouse is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,579 people and just one neighborhood, Whitehouse is the 319th largest community in Texas.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Whitehouse is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Whitehouse is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitehouse who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.20%), sales jobs (13.71%), and healthcare (7.10%).

Because of many things, Whitehouse is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Whitehouse really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Whitehouse perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

Whitehouse is a very car-oriented city. 98.62% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Whitehouse is a small city, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Whitehouse has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

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

Whitehouse Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Whitehouse who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.12% of adults in Whitehouse have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Whitehouse in 2000 was $17,489, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $69,956 for a family of four.

The people who call Whitehouse home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Whitehouse is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Whitehouse include Irish, German, English, Scotch-Irish, European, and Swedish.

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