Deer Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 28,392 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Deer Park is the 88th largest community in Texas.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Deer Park is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Deer Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Deer Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.57%), sales jobs (9.39%), and management occupations (9.11%).

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

Deer Park is a very car-oriented city. This is because most people - 98.1% - drive by car to work every day, and few people choose alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. In general, car-oriented communities have a layout that emphasizes streets, highways, and ease of parking, and sometimes this can be to the detriment of human-scale priorities such as walkability alongside roads, and public spaces. For example, strip malls are something you will find in Deer Park.

As is often the case in a small city, Deer Park doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Deer Park Information and Demographics

The population of Deer Park overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 14.96%. Of adults 25 and older in Deer Park, 16.45% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Deer Park in 2000 was $24,440, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $97,760 for a family of four. However, Deer Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Deer Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Deer Park is White, followed by Asian. Deer Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.46% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Deer Park include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.

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