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Wallis, TX

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Overview


Wallis is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,341 people and just one neighborhood, Wallis is the 769th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Wallis, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.71% of Wallis’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Wallis is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wallis who work in sales jobs (18.51%), office and administrative support (8.13%), and management occupations (5.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Wallis has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Wallis a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Wallis, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.59 minutes every day commuting to work.

Wallis 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

In Wallis, just 9.28% 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 Wallis in 2018 was $24,081, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,324 for a family of four. However, Wallis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wallis is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wallis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wallis residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wallis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.34% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wallis include German, Czech, Irish, English, and Norwegian.

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

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

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all American neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.2%) living in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Russian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Wallis are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.4% 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, 46.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.1%), and 13.2% 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 81.3% 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 Wallis, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%).

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 (29.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (91.6%) 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 (7.4%) . 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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