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Elm Mott, TX

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Overview


Elm Mott is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,428 people and just one neighborhood, Elm Mott is the 745th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elm Mott is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.05% of the Elm Mott workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elm Mott is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Elm Mott who work in office and administrative support (27.24%), law enforcement and fire fighting (7.48%), and sales jobs (6.64%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Elm Mott is worth considering.

As is often the case in a small town, Elm Mott doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Elm Mott are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.24% of adults in Elm Mott having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Elm Mott in 2022 was $37,744, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $150,976 for a family of four. However, Elm Mott contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Elm Mott home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elm Mott residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Elm Mott include German, Irish, Czech, French, and English.

The most common language spoken in Elm Mott is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.0% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and French ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 7.4% have French ancestry.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Elm Mott are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.7% of America'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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.9%), and 14.3% 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 95.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Elm Mott, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (9.5%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (7.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (7.2%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (60.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (90.0%) 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.


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