About Woodsboro

Woodsboro is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,564 people and just one neighborhood, Woodsboro is the 504th largest community in Texas.

Woodsboro is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Woodsboro is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Woodsboro who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.17%), sales jobs (9.09%), and management occupations (6.60%).

In addition, many people in Woodsboro have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

One of the nice things about Woodsboro is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities.

Woodsboro is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Woodsboro 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. 97.77% 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.

Being a small town, Woodsboro does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Woodsboro Information and Demographics

The population of Woodsboro has a very low overall level of education: only 8.96% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Woodsboro in 2000 was $15,795, 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 $63,180 for a family of four.

Woodsboro is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Woodsboro home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Woodsboro is White, followed by African-American. Woodsboro also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.99% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Woodsboro include German, Irish, English, and Czech.

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