Savoy - Ector is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,289 people and just one neighborhood, Savoy - Ector is the 503rd largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns, Savoy - Ector isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Savoy - Ector are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Savoy - Ector is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Savoy - Ector who work in office and administrative support (12.93%), maintenance occupations (10.77%), and sales jobs (8.87%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.01% 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Savoy - Ector doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Savoy - Ector citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.72% of adults 25 and older in Savoy - Ector have a college degree.
The per capita income in Savoy - Ector in 2022 was $32,927, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $131,708 for a family of four. However, Savoy - Ector contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Savoy - Ector is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Savoy - Ector home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Savoy - Ector residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Savoy - Ector include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Savoy - Ector is English. Other important languages spoken here include German/Yiddish 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 35 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.8% of 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 Savoy - Ector are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.2% 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, 30.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.9%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.3%).
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 Savoy - Ector, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.2%), along with some Italian 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 (36.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.1%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.