Blooming Grove - Frost is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,146 people and just one neighborhood, Blooming Grove - Frost is the 399th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns, Blooming Grove - Frost isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blooming Grove - Frost are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blooming Grove - Frost is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Blooming Grove - Frost who work in office and administrative support (11.32%), personal care services (8.40%), and sales jobs (8.27%).
A relatively large number of people in Blooming Grove - Frost telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.26% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
One downside of living in Blooming Grove - Frost, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.23 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Blooming Grove - Frost doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of people in Blooming Grove - Frost with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.61% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blooming Grove - Frost in 2022 was $32,092, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $128,368 for a family of four. However, Blooming Grove - Frost contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blooming Grove - Frost is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blooming Grove - Frost home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blooming Grove - Frost residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Blooming Grove - Frost also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.31% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blooming Grove - Frost include Irish, German, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Blooming Grove - Frost is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Blooming Grove - Frost, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, 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 92.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Blooming Grove - Frost are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 32.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.3%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Blooming Grove - Frost, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report German roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (77.2%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.