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Tehuacana, TX

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Overview


Tehuacana is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 229 people and just one neighborhood, Tehuacana is the 1009th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Tehuacana is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tehuacana is a town of professionals, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tehuacana who work in teaching (14.71%), management occupations (13.97%), and healthcare (10.29%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Tehuacana is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.18 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Tehuacana is a small town, 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 Tehuacana citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.51% of adults in Tehuacana have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Tehuacana in 2022 was $35,051, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,204 for a family of four. However, Tehuacana contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tehuacana also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Tehuacana is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tehuacana home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tehuacana residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tehuacana also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.27% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tehuacana include English, German, Irish, Czech, and Scottish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Tehuacana is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.5% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more African ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.6% of this neighborhood's residents have African ancestry.

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 Tehuacana are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.0% 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, 40.2% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.2%), and 13.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.5%).

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 Tehuacana, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (15.6%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.6%), and residents who report English roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.1%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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