De Berry is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,295 people and just one neighborhood, De Berry is the 430th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, De Berry is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.06% of the De Berry workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, De Berry is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in De Berry who work in office and administrative support (15.45%), teaching (11.20%), and sales jobs (10.84%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) De Berry has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. De Berry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in De Berry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, De Berry may be for you.
In De Berry, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.12 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, De Berry doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in De Berry with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.04% of adults in De Berry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in De Berry in 2022 was $33,277, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,108 for a family of four. However, De Berry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
De Berry is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Berry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of De Berry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in De Berry include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in De Berry 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 De Berry, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 96.0% 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 De Berry are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 35.9% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
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 De Berry, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.