In addition, Stephenville is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Stephenville culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Stephenville really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Stephenville every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Stephenville. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Stephenville benefits directly from this.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Stephenville spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 14.68 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
Being a small city, Stephenville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Stephenville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 32.80% of adults in Stephenville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Stephenville in 2018 was $27,158, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $108,632 for a family of four. However, Stephenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stephenville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stephenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stephenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Stephenville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Stephenville include German, English, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Stephenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
