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Grand Saline, TX

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Overview


Grand Saline is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,219 people and just one neighborhood, Grand Saline is the 508th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Grand Saline, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.64% of Grand Saline’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Grand Saline is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Saline who work in food service (11.31%), office and administrative support (8.97%), and sales jobs (6.71%).

Also of interest is that Grand Saline has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Grand Saline 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 population of Grand Saline has a very low overall level of education: only 9.06% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Grand Saline in 2018 was $25,683, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,732 for a family of four. However, Grand Saline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Grand Saline is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand Saline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Saline residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Grand Saline also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand Saline include Irish, English, German, French, and Scots-Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Grand Saline's cultural character, accounting for 17.05% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 4.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of 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 Grand Saline are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% 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, 35.0% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.3%).

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 Grand Saline, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 16.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (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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