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Goldsmith, TX

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Overview


Goldsmith is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 225 people and just one neighborhood, Goldsmith is the 1005th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Goldsmith, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.45% of Goldsmith’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Goldsmith is a city of transportation and shipping workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Goldsmith who work in management occupations (19.09%), office and administrative support (10.91%), and teaching (5.45%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Goldsmith’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

Goldsmith 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 percentage of adults in Goldsmith who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.79% of the adults in Goldsmith have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Goldsmith in 2018 was $30,040, 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 $120,160 for a family of four. However, Goldsmith contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Goldsmith is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Goldsmith home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Goldsmith residents report their race to be White. Goldsmith also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.54% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Goldsmith include German, English, Scandinavian, Irish, and French.

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

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.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.4% 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.

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 8 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.5% of America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.9% 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.

People

Astoundingly, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this single neighborhood has a higher concentration of married couples living here than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Whether they have school-aged children or not, married couples are the rule in the neighborhood. If you are a married couple, you may find many people here with a similar lifestyle, and perhaps common interests. But if you are single, you might not find many other singles here.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Cuban ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 4.2% have Cuban ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 70.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.5% 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 Goldsmith are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 15.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.7% 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, 53.3% 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 17.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 11.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 70.6% of households. Some people also speak English (29.4%).

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 Goldsmith, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (57.8%). There are also a number of people of Cuban ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Welsh roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 22.9% 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 (32.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (85.3%) 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 (9.0%) . 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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