About Cranfills Gap

Cranfills Gap is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 349 people and just one neighborhood, Cranfills Gap is the 837th largest community in Texas.

Cranfills Gap is a blue-collar town, with 51.2% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Cranfills Gap is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cranfills Gap who work in office and administrative support jobs (12.60%), sales jobs (7.87%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (7.09%).

Because of many things, Cranfills Gap 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, Cranfills Gap really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Cranfills Gap 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.

In Cranfills Gap, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.40 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Cranfills Gap is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Cranfills Gap, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Cranfills Gap Information and Demographics

Cranfills Gap ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.81% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Cranfills Gap in 2000 was $15,405, 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 $61,620 for a family of four.

Cranfills Gap is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cranfills Gap home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cranfills Gap is White, followed by African-American. Cranfills Gap also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.19% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Cranfills Gap include Norwegian, German, Irish, and English.

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