Stephenville is also a major college town with a large number of people who are 18 years or older and attending college. As is often the case in college towns, the many students that live in Stephenville have a strong influence on the local culture and entertainment scene, which may seem dormant by comparison in the summer months when much of the student population is away. In the fall, the return of students has a reinvigorating effect on the community. Because colleges are lasting institutions, they have a stabilizing effect on the economy by providing direct local benefits such as jobs for faculty and staff and spending by students. Stephenville’s economy is one such example of this.
One of the benefits of Stephenville is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.68 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.
Being a small city, Stephenville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Stephenville is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.80% of adults in Stephenville have a college degree.
The per capita income in Stephenville in 2022 was $27,158, 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 $108,632 for a family of four. However, Stephenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stephenville is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stephenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Stephenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Stephenville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.47% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Stephenville include German, English, Irish, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Stephenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
