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Celeste, TX

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Overview


Celeste is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 843 people and just one neighborhood, Celeste is the 866th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Celeste isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Celeste are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Celeste is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Celeste who work in office and administrative support (14.01%), management occupations (12.70%), and maintenance occupations (8.14%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Celeste, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.37 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

Celeste ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.97% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Celeste in 2018 was $16,920, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,680 for a family of four. However, Celeste contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Celeste is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Celeste home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Celeste residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Celeste also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Celeste include English, Irish, German, French, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Celeste, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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.

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 Celeste are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.4% 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, 37.3% 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 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 (23.0%), and 14.1% 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 90.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Celeste, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (14.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (11.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 (40.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (68.7%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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