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Forsan, TX

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Overview


Forsan is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 213 people and just one neighborhood, Forsan is the 1011th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Forsan, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 49.28% of Forsan’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Forsan is a city of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Forsan who work in healthcare suport services (11.96%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.09%), and maintenance occupations (7.66%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Forsan is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.95 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Forsan 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

The rate of college-level education in Forsan is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.68% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Forsan in 2018 was $28,423, 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 $113,692 for a family of four. However, Forsan contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Forsan is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Forsan 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 Forsan, accounting for 49.13% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Forsan residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Forsan include Greek, Irish, Scots-Irish, Italian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Forsan 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 93.2% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.4% 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 13 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Forsan are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.5% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Forsan, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report German roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 (48.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (93.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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