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Stockdale, TX

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Overview


Stockdale is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,467 people and just one neighborhood, Stockdale is the 744th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stockdale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.16% of the Stockdale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stockdale is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Stockdale who work in teaching (11.91%), personal care services (10.94%), and sales jobs (10.16%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Stockdale 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 percentage of adults in Stockdale who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.22% of the adults in Stockdale have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Stockdale in 2018 was $25,310, 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 $101,240 for a family of four. However, Stockdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Stockdale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stockdale 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 Stockdale, accounting for 57.72% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Stockdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Stockdale include German, Polish, Irish, English, and Afghan.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 34.2% 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.

In addition, 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 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 8.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Stockdale are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.5% 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 52.6% of America'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, 34.7% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.6%), and 17.2% 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 72.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 Stockdale, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (21.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (39.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (9.0%) . 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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