Gregory is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,724 people and just one neighborhood, Gregory is the 689th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Gregory is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gregory is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gregory who work in food service (15.62%), teaching (15.22%), and sales jobs (11.22%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.62% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Gregory spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 18.49 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
The population of Gregory has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.44% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Gregory in 2022 was $19,721, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,884 for a family of four. However, Gregory contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gregory also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.63% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Gregory is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Gregory 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 Gregory, accounting for 92.98% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gregory residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Gregory include Austrian, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Gregory is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African 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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, the neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (68.6%) than found in 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Also, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 22.7% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.
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, 92.1% 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 Gregory are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 68.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.4% 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, 30.9% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.5%), and 19.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 51.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (48.8%).
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 Gregory, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (92.1%).
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 (51.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (16.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.