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Bishop, TX

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Overview


Bishop is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,101 people and just one neighborhood, Bishop is the 499th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Bishop is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bishop is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Bishop who work in office and administrative support (13.89%), management occupations (9.02%), and food service (8.28%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Bishop 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

In terms of college education, Bishop is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.11% of adults 25 and older in Bishop have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Bishop in 2018 was $21,906, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $87,624 for a family of four. However, Bishop contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Bishop is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bishop home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Bishop, accounting for 67.97% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Bishop residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bishop include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Bishop are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.8% 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, 32.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 20.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 66.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.7%).

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 Bishop, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.4%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (78.8%) 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 (18.5%) . 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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