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Bloomington, TX

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Overview


Bloomington is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,082 people and just one neighborhood, Bloomington is the 632nd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Bloomington is a blue-collar town, with 39.16% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bloomington is a town of service providers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomington who work in community and social services (16.73%), office and administrative support (15.97%), and maintenance occupations (7.60%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 19.77% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bloomington has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bloomington has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bloomington than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bloomington may be for you.

One of the benefits of Bloomington is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.24 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

As is often the case in a small town, Bloomington doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Bloomington has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.04% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Bloomington in 2018 was $19,554, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,216 for a family of four. However, Bloomington contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bloomington also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 42.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Bloomington is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bloomington 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 Bloomington, accounting for 70.48% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Bloomington residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bloomington include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Yugoslavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

Of note, 54.9% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

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 44 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.2% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian 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 Bloomington are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 54.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.6% 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, 39.0% 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 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (13.6%), and 13.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 68.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (29.8%).

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 Bloomington, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (47.1%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.5%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (3.2%), 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 (72.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.9%) 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 (6.6%) . 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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