About Falls City

Falls City is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 588 people and just one neighborhood, Falls City is the 781st largest community in Texas.

Unlike some cities , Falls City isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Falls City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Falls City is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Falls City who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.97%), teaching (8.66%), and sales jobs (8.30%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Falls City work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

One downside of living in Falls City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.53 minutes every day commuting to work.

Falls City is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of Falls City 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. 97.01% 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.

Falls City 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.

Falls City Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Falls City rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.72% of adults 25 and older in Falls City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Falls City in 2000 was $19,125, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,500 for a family of four.

The people who call Falls City home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Falls City is White, followed by African-American. Falls City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.45% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Falls City include Polish, German, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Falls City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.