Floydada is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,519 people and just one neighborhood, Floydada is the 555th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Floydada is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.99% of the Floydada workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Floydada is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Floydada who work in office and administrative support (9.84%), food service (9.04%), and farm management occupations (8.95%).
As is often the case in a small city, Floydada doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Floydada with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.91% of adults in Floydada have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Floydada in 2022 was $30,388, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,552 for a family of four. However, Floydada contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Floydada is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Floydada home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Floydada, accounting for 70.07% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Floydada residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Floydada include Irish, European, German, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Floydada is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
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 Floydada, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.7% of America.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 59.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Floydada are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.4% 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, 26.7% 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 25.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.5%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (43.2%).
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 Floydada, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (59.2%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (4.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.4%), along with some German 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.4%) 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 (19.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.