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Weir, TX

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Overview


Weir is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 720 people and just one neighborhood, Weir is the 894th largest community in Texas.

Weir home prices are not only among the most expensive in Texas, but Weir real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Weir isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Weir are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Weir is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Weir who work in maintenance occupations (20.09%), sales jobs (17.90%), and office and administrative support (17.47%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Weir has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Weir has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Weir than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Weir may be for you.

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

Demographics

In Weir, just 10.49% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Weir in 2018 was $26,343, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,372 for a family of four. However, Weir contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Weir is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Weir home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weir residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Weir also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 49.65% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Weir include German, English, French, European, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Weir's cultural character, accounting for 21.48% of the city’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

People

has the amazing distinction of housing more same sex couples living together than 97.6% of neighborhoods in the U.S. If you are seeking such a neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that this is one place that you should consider.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Arab and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Arab ancestry and 4.1% have British ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% 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 Weir are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 83.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.7% 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 72.5% of America's neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 44.4% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 8.8% 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 69.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Arabic and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Weir, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (16.2%), and residents who report Arab roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.1%), among others. In addition, 18.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (73.2%) 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 (5.8%) . 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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