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Wickett, TX

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Overview


Wickett is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 403 people and just one neighborhood, Wickett is the 958th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Wickett is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.10% of the Wickett workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Wickett is a town of production and manufacturing workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wickett who work in management occupations (16.74%), sales jobs (10.13%), and healthcare (6.61%).

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Wickett spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 17.70 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

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

Demographics

The population of Wickett has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.21% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Wickett in 2018 was $24,258, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,032 for a family of four. However, Wickett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wickett is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wickett 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 Wickett, accounting for 54.64% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Wickett residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wickett include English, German, Irish, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Wickett 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 Wickett, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.2% 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.

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 Wickett are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.5% 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 70.2% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 40.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.8%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.7%).

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 Wickett, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (51.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report German roots (2.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.0%).

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 (51.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (86.0%) 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 (12.4%) . 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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