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Bangs, TX

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Overview


Bangs is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,535 people and just one neighborhood, Bangs is the 717th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Bangs is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.32% of the Bangs workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Bangs is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bangs who work in office and administrative support (11.25%), sales jobs (9.85%), and management occupations (9.72%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Bangs is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

Bangs 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 citizens of Bangs are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.96% of adults in Bangs have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Bangs in 2018 was $26,911, 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 $107,644 for a family of four. However, Bangs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bangs is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bangs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bangs residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bangs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bangs include European, German, Irish, English, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

If you are planning to retire in Texas, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Texas, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.4% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 45 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.1% of America.

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 Bangs are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 62.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 30.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.2%), and 15.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Bangs, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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