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San Diego, TX

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Overview


San Diego is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,655 people and just one neighborhood, San Diego is the 457th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

San Diego is a blue-collar town, with 36.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, San Diego is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Diego who work in sales jobs (14.91%), business and financial occupations (10.87%), and office and administrative support (6.25%).

A relatively large number of people in San Diego telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.72% 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

San Diego’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in San Diego, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.98 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, San Diego does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In San Diego, just 9.02% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in San Diego in 2018 was $21,364, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,456 for a family of four. However, San Diego contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Diego is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Diego 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 San Diego, accounting for 97.47% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of San Diego residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in San Diego include Dutch, European, German, British, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in San Diego is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.

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 San Diego, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 30.2% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Of particular note, 12.6% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.3%, which is higher than 95.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 82.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 59.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 San Diego are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 30.6% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.0%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 59.0% of households. Some people also speak English (41.0%).

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 San Diego, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (82.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.6%), and residents who report English roots (1.1%).

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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (61.3%) 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 (30.2%) . 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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