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Lake Worth, TX

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Overview


Lake Worth is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,667 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Worth is the 398th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Lake Worth isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Lake Worth are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Worth is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Worth who work in office and administrative support (16.65%), sales jobs (10.91%), and maintenance occupations (6.39%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.61% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Lake Worth 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Lake Worth who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.53% of the adults in Lake Worth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Lake Worth in 2018 was $49,212, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $196,848 for a family of four. However, Lake Worth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Lake Worth is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Worth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Worth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lake Worth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Worth include English, Irish, German, European, and British.

The most common language spoken in Lake Worth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Lake Worth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.9% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lake Worth are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 31.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 32.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.5%), and 19.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Lake Worth, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (12.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.2%), along with some British ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 12.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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