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Buchanan Dam, TX

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Overview


Buchanan Dam is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,508 people and just one neighborhood, Buchanan Dam is the 726th largest community in Texas.

Buchanan Dam real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Buchanan Dam house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Buchanan Dam is a blue-collar town, with 38.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Buchanan Dam is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Buchanan Dam who work in management occupations (19.76%), office and administrative support (18.94%), and sales jobs (11.41%).

Also of interest is that Buchanan Dam has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.98% 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

Another notable thing is that Buchanan Dam is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Buchanan Dam has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Buchanan Dam a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Buchanan Dam, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.10 minutes every day commuting to work.

Buchanan Dam is a small town, 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, Buchanan Dam is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.45% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Buchanan Dam in 2018 was $48,882, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $195,528 for a family of four. However, Buchanan Dam contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Buchanan Dam is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Buchanan Dam home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Buchanan Dam residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Buchanan Dam also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.22% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Buchanan Dam include English, German, Irish, French, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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 98.7% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

In addition, priests and therapists would like to think they know the secrets to a truly successful marriage, but according to NeighborhoodScout's research, the folks of the neighborhood may actually hold the key. 70.4% of its residents are married, which is a higher percentage than is found in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 41.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Buchanan Dam are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.7% 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, 29.6% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.9%), and 18.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.4%).

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 Buchanan Dam, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (19.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

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 (36.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.4%) 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 (11.3%) . 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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