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Gunter, TX

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Overview


Gunter is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,400 people and just one neighborhood, Gunter is the 637th largest community in Texas. Gunter has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Gunter, where the median household income is $106,700.00.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Gunter isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gunter are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gunter is a city of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gunter who work in management occupations (13.61%), sales jobs (10.34%), and maintenance occupations (10.16%).

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

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Gunter is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Gunter really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Gunter perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Gunter is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Gunter, the average commute to work is 30.89 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of Gunter is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 34.51% of adults in Gunter have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gunter in 2018 was $37,947, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $151,788 for a family of four. However, Gunter contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gunter is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gunter home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gunter residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Gunter also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 26.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gunter include English, Irish, German, Czech, and French.

The most common language spoken in Gunter 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.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 7.2% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of Texas. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.

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 Gunter are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 84.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 78.0% of America'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, 46.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.5%), and 9.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.0%).

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 Gunter, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report German roots (14.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.2%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 10.2% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.4%) 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 (16.2%) . 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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