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McQueeney, TX

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Overview


McQueeney is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,397 people and just one neighborhood, McQueeney is the 589th largest community in Texas.

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

Occupations and Workforce

McQueeney is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, McQueeney is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in McQueeney who work in office and administrative support (20.80%), sales jobs (13.21%), and management occupations (10.49%).

Of important note, McQueeney is also a town of artists. McQueeney has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape McQueeney’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 28.97% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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

Demographics

The population of McQueeney overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in McQueeney, 21.12% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in McQueeney in 2022 was $40,167, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,668 for a family of four. However, McQueeney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

McQueeney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McQueeney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McQueeney residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. McQueeney also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.83% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McQueeney include German, Irish, French, Polish, and English.

The most common language spoken in McQueeney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Mon-Khmer (Cambodian).

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 32.2% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.

Real Estate

One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.4% 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.

Diversity

Significantly, 2.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% 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 McQueeney are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.1% 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, 40.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 14.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 McQueeney, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.0%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.1%), among others.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (53.1%) 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 (13.4%) . 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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