Dennis is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 727 people and just one neighborhood, Dennis is the 889th largest community in Texas. Dennis has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Dennis, where the median household income is $214,900.00.
Dennis real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Dennis house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
When you are in Dennis, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.12% of Dennis’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Dennis is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Dennis who work in personal care services (23.65%), teaching (12.39%), and healthcare (8.78%).
Dennis 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, Dennis’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
One downside of living in Dennis is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Dennis, the average commute to work is 42.79 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Dennis does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Dennis, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Dennis is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 56.40% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Dennis in 2022 was $49,594, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $198,376 for a family of four. However, Dennis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Dennis is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dennis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Dennis residents report their race to be White. Dennis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.17% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Dennis include Norwegian, European, Irish, French, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Dennis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Other Asian languages and Native American languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 Dennis are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.7% 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, 37.4% 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.7%).
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 Dennis, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.2%), and residents who report German roots (13.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (2.8%), among others. In addition, 10.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.