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New Deal, TX

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Overview


New Deal is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 735 people and just one neighborhood, New Deal is the 887th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, New Deal isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in New Deal are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, New Deal is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in New Deal who work in office and administrative support (19.06%), healthcare suport services (10.00%), and management occupations (7.81%).

A relatively large number of people in New Deal telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.24% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

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!) New Deal 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. New Deal has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Deal than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Deal may be for you.

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

Demographics

The population of New Deal has a very low overall level of education: only 9.85% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in New Deal in 2018 was $26,216, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,864 for a family of four. However, New Deal contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

New Deal is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call New Deal home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Deal residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. New Deal also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 40.84% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in New Deal include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Dutch.

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

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 43.1% 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.

In addition, 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 92.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

Of particular note, 2.6% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 14.6% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 97.0% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.4% of this neighborhood's residents have English ancestry.

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 New Deal are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 36.4% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.3%), and 17.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

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 74.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 New Deal, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (22.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.8%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 (48.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (77.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (14.6%) and 7.7% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors 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.


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