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Falls City, TX

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Overview


Falls City is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 513 people and just one neighborhood, Falls City is the 933rd largest community in Texas.

Falls City real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Falls City house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Falls City isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Falls City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Falls City is a city of professionals, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Falls City who work in teaching (18.55%), office and administrative support (14.71%), and management occupations (10.18%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Falls City is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Falls City a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Falls City has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Falls City’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

One downside of living in Falls City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.07 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, Falls City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of Falls City citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.56% of adults in Falls City have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Falls City in 2018 was $32,008, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,032 for a family of four. However, Falls City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Falls City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Falls City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Falls City residents report their race to be White. Falls City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.11% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Falls City include Polish, German, Irish, Italian, and English.

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

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.

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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.

People

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 95.3% 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.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.6% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Polish and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 37.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Polish ancestry and 2.3% have Swiss ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.4% 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 Falls City are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 61.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.3% 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, 43.5% 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 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.0%), and 15.6% 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 90.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Greek and Polish.

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 Falls City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Polish (37.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report Mexican roots (17.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (7.2%), 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 (35.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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