Wolfe City is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,421 people and just one neighborhood, Wolfe City is the 748th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wolfe City is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wolfe City is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wolfe City who work in office and administrative support (13.56%), law enforcement and fire fighting (12.85%), and management occupations (10.92%).
One downside of living in Wolfe City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Wolfe City, the average commute to work is 35.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Wolfe City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Wolfe City with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.16% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Wolfe City in 2018 was $25,074, 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 $100,296 for a family of four. However, Wolfe City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wolfe City is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wolfe City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wolfe City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Wolfe City include Irish, English, German, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Wolfe City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Wolfe City 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 88.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Wolfe City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 27.9% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.1%), and 20.1% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.3% of households.
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 Wolfe City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.4%), and residents who report German roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.7%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
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 (37.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also ride the bus to get to work (7.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.