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Waelder is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 955 people and just one neighborhood, Waelder is the 835th largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Waelder, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.42% of Waelder’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Waelder is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Waelder who work in office and administrative support (15.15%), healthcare suport services (14.23%), and management occupations (8.21%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Waelder has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Waelder a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Waelder does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
In Waelder, just 8.20% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Waelder in 2022 was $24,869, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,476 for a family of four. However, Waelder contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Waelder is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Waelder home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Waelder, accounting for 92.65% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Waelder residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Waelder include German, Czech, Welsh, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
In addition, Waelder has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.60%).
The most common language spoken in Waelder is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Urdu.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Waelder, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Real Estate
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Occupations
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.3% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.8% of American neighborhoods.
People
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Waelder 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 89.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
The Neighbors
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 Waelder are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.2% 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, 44.3% 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 21.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 12.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 63.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.7%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Waelder, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (51.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (5.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 11.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
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 (30.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.4%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
