Schulenburg is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,783 people and just one neighborhood, Schulenburg is the 561st largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Schulenburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.50% of the Schulenburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Schulenburg is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Schulenburg who work in food service (10.65%), office and administrative support (10.46%), and sales jobs (9.22%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.65% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.76 minutes getting to work every day.
Schulenburg 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 adults in Schulenburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.90% of adults in Schulenburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Schulenburg in 2022 was $24,189, 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 $96,756 for a family of four. However, Schulenburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Schulenburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Schulenburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Schulenburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Schulenburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Schulenburg include German, Czech, Irish, English, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Schulenburg's cultural character, accounting for 15.90% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Schulenburg 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.
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 Schulenburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.2% 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, 34.9% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 79.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Schulenburg, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (26.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 11.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (54.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.