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Fritch, TX

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Overview


Fritch is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,815 people and just one neighborhood, Fritch is the 667th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Fritch, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.54% of Fritch’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Fritch is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Fritch who work in food service (9.96%), healthcare suport services (7.90%), and the sciences (7.72%).

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Fritch has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

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!) Fritch 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. Fritch has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Fritch than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Fritch may be for you.

Demographics

In Fritch, just 11.88% 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 Fritch in 2022 was $34,496, 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 $137,984 for a family of four. However, Fritch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Fritch home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fritch residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fritch include Irish, German, English, Norwegian, and European.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 Fritch are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.5% 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 54.6% of America'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, 37.6% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 12.5% 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 90.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Fritch, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.3%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (14.1%) and 5.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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