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Sundown, TX

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Overview


Sundown is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,277 people and just one neighborhood, Sundown is the 771st largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sundown is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.73% of the Sundown workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sundown is a city of service providers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Sundown who work in management occupations (12.11%), maintenance occupations (11.36%), and sales jobs (9.12%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

The citizens of Sundown are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.64% of adults in Sundown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Sundown in 2018 was $29,487, 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 $117,948 for a family of four. However, Sundown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sundown is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sundown 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 Sundown, accounting for 54.26% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Sundown residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Sundown include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Sundown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Sundown, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 12 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more West Indian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.3% of this neighborhood's residents have West Indian 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 Sundown are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.6% 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 54.2% 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, 37.3% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.6%), and 7.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 71.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.7%).

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 Sundown, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (41.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.5%), among others.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (13.8%) . 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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