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Cockrell Hill, TX

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Overview


Cockrell Hill is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,633 people and just one neighborhood, Cockrell Hill is the 453rd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Cockrell Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.67% of Cockrell Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cockrell Hill is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cockrell Hill who work in office and administrative support (12.79%), management occupations (8.30%), and sales jobs (7.82%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In Cockrell Hill, just 11.46% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Cockrell Hill in 2022 was $25,252, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,008 for a family of four. However, Cockrell Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cockrell Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cockrell Hill 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 Cockrell Hill, accounting for 83.24% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cockrell Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cockrell Hill include German, English, Irish, French, and Polish.

In addition, Cockrell Hill has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (28.51%).

The most common language spoken in Cockrell Hill is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Miao/Hmong.

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.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.7% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of American neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood stands out within Texas for its college student friendly environment. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood is home to a number of college students, is relatively walkable, and above average in safety. In combination, this makes it stand out for a good place for college students to consider. Because a number of college students live here, this neighborhood may be close to a college campus and offer certain amenities nearby geared towards the student body. While it's not an environment for everyone, ambitious scholars can enjoy seasonal excitement between semesters and school breaks, and parents can rest easy knowing that the area has an above average safety rating. For each of these reasons, the neighborhood is rated among the top 8.8% of college-friendly places to live in TX.

Diversity

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, 81.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 71.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Cockrell Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 5.5% 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 62.4% 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, 42.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.8%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 71.0% of households. Some people also speak English (29.0%).

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 Cockrell Hill, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (81.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.7%). In addition, 28.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (41.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.4%) 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 (13.3%) . 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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