Hargill is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 800 people and just one neighborhood, Hargill is the 867th largest community in Texas.
Hargill is a blue-collar town, with 37.77% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hargill is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hargill who work in healthcare suport services (19.68%), sales jobs (14.89%), and art, media, and design (14.36%).
Of important note, Hargill is also a town of artists. Hargill has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Hargill’s character.
Hargill is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Hargill ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.66% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Hargill in 2022 was $8,948, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $35,792 for a family of four. Hargill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 68.61% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Hargill is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hargill 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 Hargill, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hargill residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Hargill include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Hargill also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 23.29%.
The most common language spoken in Hargill is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 70.4% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
In addition, 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 41 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 90.8% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 93.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 90.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Hargill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% 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, 34.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.3%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 90.8% of households. Some people also speak English (9.2%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Hargill, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (93.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 38.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (31.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (8.2%) and 6.9% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.