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Whitewright is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,776 people and just one neighborhood, Whitewright is the 693rd largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
Whitewright is a blue-collar town, with 37.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Whitewright is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Whitewright who work in office and administrative support (15.09%), teaching (9.45%), and business and financial occupations (8.84%).
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Whitewright, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.73 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Whitewright doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
In terms of college education, Whitewright is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.55% of adults 25 and older in Whitewright have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Whitewright in 2022 was $33,413, 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 $133,652 for a family of four. However, Whitewright contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Whitewright is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Whitewright home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Whitewright residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Whitewright include Irish, German, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Whitewright is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.4% of the neighborhoods in TX. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
The Neighbors
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 Whitewright are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 58.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 9.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.6% of America'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, 37.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 14.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.2% of households.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Whitewright, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (15.1%), and residents who report German roots (13.7%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (3.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 (51.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
