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Fort Hancock - Dell City, TX

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Overview


Fort Hancock - Dell City is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,451 people and just one neighborhood, Fort Hancock - Dell City is the 496th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fort Hancock - Dell City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.47% of the Fort Hancock - Dell City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Fort Hancock - Dell City is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fort Hancock - Dell City who work in office and administrative support (9.29%), management occupations (8.76%), and food service (8.55%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Fort Hancock - Dell City work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small town, Fort Hancock - Dell City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Fort Hancock - Dell City is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.39% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fort Hancock - Dell City in 2022 was $19,142, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,568 for a family of four. However, Fort Hancock - Dell City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Fort Hancock - Dell City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Fort Hancock - Dell City 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 Fort Hancock - Dell City, accounting for 65.48% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Fort Hancock - Dell City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Fort Hancock - Dell City include Irish, English, French, German, and African.

In addition, Fort Hancock - Dell City has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.64%).

The most common language spoken in Fort Hancock - Dell City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 50.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

People

An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Fort Hancock - Dell City is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.2% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Occupations

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 98.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

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, 56.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Fort Hancock - Dell City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.3% 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, 28.0% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.6%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 64.2% of households. Some people also speak English (34.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Fort Hancock - Dell City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (56.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report English roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (2.6%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 28.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (77.0%) 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 (11.7%) and 8.0% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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