Cuney is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 115 people and just one neighborhood, Cuney is the 1039th largest community in Texas. Cuney has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Cuney, where the median household income is $26,406.00.
Unlike some towns, Cuney isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Cuney are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cuney is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cuney who work in office and administrative support (32.84%), healthcare suport services (22.39%), and teaching (8.96%).
The overall crime rate in Cuney is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
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!) Cuney 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. Cuney has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Cuney than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Cuney may be for you.
One downside of living in Cuney is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cuney, the average commute to work is 32.35 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Cuney 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 population of Cuney has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cuney in 2022 was $15,967, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $63,868 for a family of four. However, Cuney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cuney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.20% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Cuney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cuney home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Cuney, accounting for 38.65% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cuney residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cuney include German, Irish, Dutch, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Cuney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
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.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Cuney 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.
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 Cuney are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.6%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.6%).
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 Cuney, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (13.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.