Robert Lee is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,042 people and just one neighborhood, Robert Lee is the 817th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Robert Lee is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Robert Lee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Robert Lee who work in office and administrative support (15.37%), sales jobs (11.69%), and healthcare suport services (11.47%).
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, Robert Lee has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Robert Lee a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Robert Lee is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 19.16 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Robert Lee is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of people in Robert Lee with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.71% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Robert Lee in 2022 was $24,208, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,832 for a family of four. However, Robert Lee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Robert Lee is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Robert Lee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Robert Lee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Robert Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Robert Lee include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Robert Lee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
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 Robert Lee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% 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, 32.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 20.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.7%).
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 Robert Lee, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
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 (48.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.1%) 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 (5.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.