Martindale is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,256 people and just one neighborhood, Martindale is the 779th largest community in Texas.
Martindale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Martindale is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Martindale who work in office and administrative support (20.37%), management occupations (16.16%), and sales jobs (14.65%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Martindale has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Martindale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Martindale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Martindale may be for you.
Being a small city, Martindale does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Martindale is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.54% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Martindale in 2022 was $39,499, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $157,996 for a family of four. However, Martindale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Martindale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Martindale 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 Martindale, accounting for 56.97% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Martindale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Martindale include English, German, Irish, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Martindale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Martindale, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 98.1% of all American neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 37.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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, 56.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Martindale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.8% of U.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, 42.9% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.6%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 63.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.2%).
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 Martindale, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (56.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (5.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.5%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 16.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (84.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.