Bruni - Oilton is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,180 people and just one neighborhood, Bruni - Oilton is the 787th largest community in Texas.
Bruni - Oilton is a blue-collar town, with 35.37% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bruni - Oilton is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bruni - Oilton who work in food service (12.07%), maintenance occupations (11.07%), and office and administrative support (9.42%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bruni - Oilton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bruni - Oilton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bruni - Oilton is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bruni - Oilton, the average commute to work is 34.45 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Bruni - Oilton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Bruni - Oilton has a very low overall level of education: only 6.39% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Bruni - Oilton in 2022 was $22,473, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,892 for a family of four. However, Bruni - Oilton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bruni - Oilton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bruni - Oilton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Bruni - Oilton, accounting for 96.51% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Bruni - Oilton residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Bruni - Oilton include Italian, Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Bruni - Oilton's cultural character, accounting for 21.00% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Bruni - Oilton is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Asian languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bruni - Oilton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 2 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.9% of America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.6% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.9% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Texas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 96.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 87.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Bruni - Oilton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.5%), and 9.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 87.8% of households. Some people also speak English (12.2%).
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 Bruni - Oilton, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (96.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%). In addition, 21.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.