Wilson - New Home is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,254 people and just one neighborhood, Wilson - New Home is the 622nd largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Wilson - New Home is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Wilson - New Home is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wilson - New Home who work in management occupations (25.37%), teaching (15.87%), and sales jobs (8.98%).
Wilson - New Home is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Wilson - New Home’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Being a small town, Wilson - New Home does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Wilson - New Home 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: 33.81% of adults in Wilson - New Home have a college degree.
The per capita income in Wilson - New Home in 2022 was $35,677, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,708 for a family of four. However, Wilson - New Home contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Wilson - New Home is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Wilson - New Home home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Wilson - New Home residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Wilson - New Home also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 40.02% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Wilson - New Home include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Wilson - New Home is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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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 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Wilson - New Home 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 88.8% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Wilson - New Home are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% 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, 52.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.7%), and 8.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 79.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Wilson - New Home, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report English roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (2.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.7%) 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 (10.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.