Fulshear is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 42,616 people and two associated neighborhoods, Fulshear is the 173rd largest community in Texas. Fulshear has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Fulshear, where the median household income is $178,398.00. Fulshear home prices are not only among the most expensive in Texas, but Fulshear real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.Fulshear is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 97.84% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fulshear is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fulshear who work in management occupations (32.30%), sales jobs (10.46%), and architecture and engineering (9.07%). Also of interest is that Fulshear has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 29.38% 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. Because of many things, Fulshear is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fulshear really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fulshear perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. One downside of living in Fulshear, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.00 minutes every day commuting to work. Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Fulshear, you'll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Fulshear is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 68.43% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%. The per capita income in Fulshear in 2022 was $62,708, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $250,832 for a family of four. Fulshear is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fulshear home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fulshear residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Fulshear also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.75% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fulshear include German, English, Irish, South African, and Italian. In addition, Fulshear has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.24%). The most common language spoken in Fulshear is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
