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Spring Branch, TX

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Overview


Spring Branch is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 233 people and just one neighborhood, Spring Branch is the 1015th largest community in Texas.

Spring Branch home prices are not only among the most expensive in Texas, but Spring Branch real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Spring Branch, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.73% of Spring Branch’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Spring Branch is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Spring Branch who work in art, media, and design (35.43%), management occupations (10.24%), and sales jobs (6.30%).

Of important note, Spring Branch is also a city of artists. Spring Branch has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Spring Branch’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Spring Branch’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Spring Branch, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 49.54 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Spring Branch are among the most well-educated in the nation: 42.11% of adults in Spring Branch have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Spring Branch in 2018 was $50,993, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $203,972 for a family of four. However, Spring Branch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Spring Branch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Spring Branch residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Spring Branch include German, Irish, Scots-Irish, English, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Spring Branch is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.

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

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

In addition, 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 97.1% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for families with school-aged children and highly educated executives.

Also, astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

Diversity

Significantly, 6.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in 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 Spring Branch are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 56.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 19.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.0%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Spring Branch, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (22.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.6%), and residents who report English roots (17.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.4%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (7.5%) . 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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