Rio Vista is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,190 people and just one neighborhood, Rio Vista is the 823rd largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Rio Vista, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Rio Vista, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Rio Vista’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Rio Vista does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $70,587.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rio Vista is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.09% of the Rio Vista workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rio Vista is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Rio Vista who work in office and administrative support (15.71%), management occupations (12.83%), and sales jobs (9.71%).
In Rio Vista, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.94 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The percentage of adults in Rio Vista with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.47% of adults in Rio Vista have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rio Vista in 2022 was $27,353, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,412 for a family of four. However, Rio Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Rio Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Rio Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Rio Vista include English, Irish, German, Italian, and African.
The most common language spoken in Rio Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Our research reveals that 89.7% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Rio Vista are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.1% 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, 37.4% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.8%), and 17.3% 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 92.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Rio Vista, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.3%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.5%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (89.7%) 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.