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Driscoll, TX

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Overview


Driscoll is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 665 people and just one neighborhood, Driscoll is the 898th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Driscoll is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Driscoll is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Driscoll who work in personal care services (39.06%), sales jobs (22.66%), and healthcare suport services (6.25%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.68% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

Demographics

In Driscoll, just 12.61% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Driscoll in 2018 was $9,165, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $36,660 for a family of four. Driscoll also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.35% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Driscoll is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Driscoll 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 Driscoll, accounting for 96.28% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Driscoll residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Driscoll include German, Irish, Czech, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 17 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Lebanese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 79.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.6% have Lebanese 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 Driscoll are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.4% 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, 29.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.9%), and 13.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (40.5%).

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 Driscoll, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (79.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%), along with some Arab 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (7.4%) and 7.3% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. 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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