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Shamrock, TX

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Overview


Shamrock is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,713 people and just one neighborhood, Shamrock is the 677th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shamrock is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shamrock is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Shamrock who work in office and administrative support (23.85%), sales jobs (8.68%), and maintenance occupations (7.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, Shamrock’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

Being a small city, Shamrock does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Shamrock with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.34% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Shamrock in 2022 was $25,538, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,152 for a family of four. However, Shamrock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Shamrock is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shamrock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shamrock residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shamrock also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.60% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shamrock include Irish, German, English, French Canadian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Shamrock is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Real Estate

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 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 9.3% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Texas, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Texas.

The Neighbors

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 Shamrock are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.6% 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, 29.5% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 21.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (17.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Shamrock, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report German roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some French Canadian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

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 (16.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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