Baytown is a larger medium-sized coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Texas. With a population of 66,944 people and 24 constituent neighborhoods, Baytown is the 35th largest community in Texas.

Baytown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Baytown is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Baytown who work in office and administrative support jobs (15.07%), sales jobs (10.00%), and teaching (5.99%).

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Baytown are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

One notable thing about Baytown is that if you need to go anywhere, you're going to have to drive. This is because Baytown is primarily built for cars, and if you drive around you will notice that there are lots of shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets. Commuting to work is done by car: 97.4% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. Sidewalks? Not so much. In fact, trying to walk in certain parts of town may be a dangerous enterprise.

The city of Baytown is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Baytown Information and Demographics

The citizens of Baytown are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 13.57% of adults in Baytown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Baytown in 2000 was $17,641, 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 $70,564 for a family of four.

Baytown is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Baytown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Baytown is White, followed by African-American. Baytown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.05% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Baytown include German, English, Irish, and French.

Baytown also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.99%.

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