River Oaks is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 7,370 people and just one neighborhood, River Oaks is the 298th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, River Oaks isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in River Oaks are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, River Oaks is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in River Oaks who work in office and administrative support (16.18%), teaching (7.81%), and healthcare suport services (7.54%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.68% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
River Oaks is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of River Oaks are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.63% of adults in River Oaks have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in River Oaks in 2022 was $26,898, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,592 for a family of four. However, River Oaks contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
River Oaks is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call River Oaks 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 River Oaks, accounting for 67.55% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of River Oaks residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in River Oaks include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
In addition, River Oaks has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (17.75%).
The most common language spoken in River Oaks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 (25.5%) than in 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 67.5% 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 River Oaks are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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In the neighborhood, 33.5% 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 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.7%), and 17.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (43.8%).
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 River Oaks, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (67.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 17.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (66.2%) 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 (25.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.