New Waverly is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 956 people and just one neighborhood, New Waverly is the 842nd largest community in Texas.
New Waverly is a blue-collar town, with 44.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Waverly is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Waverly who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (13.39%), office and administrative support (10.93%), and management occupations (5.46%).
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!) New Waverly 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. New Waverly has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in New Waverly than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, New Waverly may be for you.
One downside of living in New Waverly, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.17 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, New Waverly does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of New Waverly rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.48% of adults 25 and older in New Waverly 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 New Waverly in 2022 was $26,324, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,296 for a family of four. However, New Waverly contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Waverly is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Waverly home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of New Waverly residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in New Waverly include English, German, Norwegian, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in New Waverly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.
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 New Waverly, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 13.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
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 New Waverly are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.5% 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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 New Waverly, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (20.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.