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Elmendorf, TX

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Overview


Elmendorf is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,264 people and just one neighborhood, Elmendorf is the 666th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Elmendorf was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Elmendorf economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Elmendorf, where the median household income is $56,953.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Elmendorf isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Elmendorf are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Elmendorf is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elmendorf who work in office and administrative support (19.64%), sales jobs (13.66%), and management occupations (10.05%).

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

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

Setting & Lifestyle

The city 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, Elmendorf has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elmendorf a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Elmendorf, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.54 minutes every day commuting to work.

Elmendorf is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Elmendorf, just 10.60% 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 Elmendorf in 2018 was $20,427, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,708 for a family of four. However, Elmendorf contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Elmendorf is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Elmendorf 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 Elmendorf, accounting for 71.61% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Elmendorf residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Elmendorf include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 41.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.5% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 64.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Elmendorf are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.1% 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, 27.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.5%), and 21.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (44.3%).

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 Elmendorf, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (64.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (11.5%) . 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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