Comfort is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,211 people and two associated neighborhoods, Comfort is the 616th largest community in Texas. Comfort real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Comfort house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Comfort is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Comfort is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Comfort who work in food service (13.71%), healthcare (13.08%), and management occupations (11.01%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.28% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Comfort 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. Comfort has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Comfort than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Comfort may be for you. Comfort 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.The percentage of adults in Comfort who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.00% of the adults in Comfort have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Comfort in 2022 was $34,810, 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 $139,240 for a family of four. However, Comfort contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Comfort is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Comfort home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Comfort residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Comfort also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.70% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Comfort include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Comfort is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
