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Ropesville, TX

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Overview


Ropesville is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 439 people and just one neighborhood, Ropesville is the 957th largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Ropesville, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Ropesville, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Ropesville’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Ropesville does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $65,179.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Ropesville is a blue-collar town, with 35.71% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ropesville is a city of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ropesville who work in teaching (19.39%), sales jobs (8.16%), and food service (7.14%).

Also of interest is that Ropesville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Ropesville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Ropesville citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.34% of adults 25 and older in Ropesville have a college degree.

The per capita income in Ropesville in 2018 was $25,536, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,144 for a family of four. However, Ropesville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ropesville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ropesville 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 Ropesville, accounting for 72.37% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Ropesville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Ropesville include German, English, French, Dutch, and Yugoslavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

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 98.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.7% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 3.2% 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 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Ropesville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 62.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.9% 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 58.8% 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, 35.0% 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 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 10.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 88.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Ropesville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (25.0%), and residents who report English roots (16.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (14.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), 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 (50.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (8.5%) . 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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