McGregor is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,979 people and just one neighborhood, McGregor is the 363rd largest community in Texas.
McGregor real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although McGregor house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in McGregor, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 45.58% of McGregor’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McGregor is a city of sales and office workers, production and manufacturing workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in McGregor who work in office and administrative support (14.44%), sales jobs (6.92%), and management occupations (4.49%).
Also of interest is that McGregor has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
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!) McGregor 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. McGregor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McGregor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McGregor may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, McGregor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in McGregor is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.43% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in McGregor in 2022 was $29,071, 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 $116,284 for a family of four. However, McGregor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McGregor is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McGregor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of McGregor residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. McGregor also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.30% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in McGregor include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in McGregor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in McGregor 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 89.1% 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 McGregor are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 16.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 29.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (27.5%), and 14.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 78.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 McGregor, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.1%), and residents who report English roots (12.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.2%), among others. In addition, 11.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.