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Sandy Oaks, TX

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Overview


Sandy Oaks is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,354 people and just one neighborhood, Sandy Oaks is the 375th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Sandy Oaks is a blue-collar town, with 44.95% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Sandy Oaks is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Sandy Oaks who work in sales jobs (10.06%), office and administrative support (8.99%), and business and financial occupations (6.27%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Sandy Oaks has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Sandy Oaks has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Sandy Oaks than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Sandy Oaks may be for you.

One downside of living in Sandy Oaks, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.52 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

Demographics

The population of Sandy Oaks has a very low overall level of education: only 6.70% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Sandy Oaks in 2018 was $20,084, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,336 for a family of four. However, Sandy Oaks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sandy Oaks is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sandy Oaks 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 Sandy Oaks, accounting for 80.50% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Sandy Oaks residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sandy Oaks include German, Irish, English, French, and Czech.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 75.8% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

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, 73.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

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 Sandy Oaks are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.4% 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, 45.0% 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 22.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.8%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 54.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (43.9%).

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 Sandy Oaks, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (73.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.4%), and residents who report Spanish roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 13.3% 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 (49.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (72.1%) 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 (21.2%) . 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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