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Gustine, TX

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Overview


Gustine is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 407 people and just one neighborhood, Gustine is the 966th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gustine is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 69.23% of the Gustine workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gustine is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Gustine who work in farm management occupations (26.92%), teaching (12.09%), and office and administrative support (4.95%).

In addition, many people in Gustine have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Gustine has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Gustine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Gustine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Gustine may be for you.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Gustine are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.98% of adults in Gustine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Gustine in 2018 was $32,461, 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 $129,844 for a family of four. However, Gustine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Gustine is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gustine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Gustine residents report their race to be White. Gustine also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 47.10% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Gustine include Irish, German, European, Norwegian, and English.

Gustine also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 25.69%.

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

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 Gustine, 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 9.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 6 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Gustine is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.5% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Gustine are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.9% 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, 35.1% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 9.7% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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 Gustine, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.9%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.6%), among others. In addition, 19.7% 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 (36.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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