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Floydada, TX

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Overview


Floydada is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,594 people and just one neighborhood, Floydada is the 555th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Floydada is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.99% of the Floydada workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Floydada is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Floydada who work in office and administrative support (9.84%), food service (9.04%), and farm management occupations (8.95%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Floydada with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.91% of adults in Floydada have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Floydada in 2018 was $30,388, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,552 for a family of four. However, Floydada contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Floydada is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Floydada 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 Floydada, accounting for 70.07% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Floydada residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Floydada include Irish, European, German, English, and Swedish.

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

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 Floydada, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 8.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 20.3% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

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, 59.2% 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 Floydada are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% 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, 26.7% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.5%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (43.2%).

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 Floydada, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (59.2%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (19.6%) . 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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