Shepherd is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,985 people and two associated neighborhoods, Shepherd is the 630th largest community in Texas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Shepherd is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shepherd is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Shepherd who work in maintenance occupations (18.17%), office and administrative support (15.49%), and food service (8.17%). It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Shepherd has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Shepherd has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shepherd than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shepherd may be for you. Being a small city, Shepherd does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Shepherd, just 9.17% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Shepherd in 2022 was $20,077, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,308 for a family of four. However, Shepherd contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shepherd is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shepherd home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shepherd residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shepherd also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.52% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shepherd include German, Irish, Italian, Polish, and French. The most common language spoken in Shepherd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
