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Freer, TX

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Overview


Freer is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,363 people and just one neighborhood, Freer is the 582nd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Freer, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.92% of Freer’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Freer is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Freer who work in office and administrative support (15.52%), teaching (11.90%), and healthcare (8.64%).

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, Freer has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Freer a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small city, Freer doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Freer is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.53% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Freer in 2022 was $35,044, 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 $140,176 for a family of four. However, Freer contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Freer is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Freer 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 Freer, accounting for 79.16% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Freer residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Freer include German, Irish, English, French, and Yugoslavian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

The first thing that you'll notice if you moved to this neighborhood is that an astounding 3.4% of the households are same sex couples. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis, this is a higher proportion of same sex households than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in America. This is one indicator that this neighborhood is likely a gay-friendly neighborhood. So if you are looking for such a neighborhood, the neighborhood should definitely be on your list of places to consider.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 72.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.2% 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 Freer are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.5% 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, 37.2% 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 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 12.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 54.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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 Freer, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (72.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.0%).

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (9.3%) . 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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