Laneville is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,949 people and just one neighborhood, Laneville is the 532nd largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Laneville is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.65% of the Laneville workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Laneville is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Laneville who work in sales jobs (11.53%), law enforcement and fire fighting (9.87%), and maintenance occupations (6.83%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Laneville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Laneville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Laneville is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Laneville, the average commute to work is 32.96 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Laneville does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Laneville rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.83% of adults 25 and older in Laneville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Laneville in 2022 was $30,003, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,012 for a family of four. However, Laneville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Laneville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Laneville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laneville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Laneville include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and African.
The most common language spoken in Laneville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.3%) than in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Laneville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.9% 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 51.1% 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, 36.2% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 10.8% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.8%).
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 Laneville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (10.5%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.7%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.8%), among others.
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 (34.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (26.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.