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Detroit, TX

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Overview


Detroit is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 707 people and just one neighborhood, Detroit is the 892nd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Detroit isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Detroit are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Detroit is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Detroit who work in sales jobs (21.96%), food service (13.55%), and office and administrative support (7.48%).

Of important note, Detroit is also a town of artists. Detroit has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Detroit’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Detroit is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Detroit, the average commute to work is 32.44 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Detroit does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Detroit ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.08% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Detroit in 2022 was $18,973, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,892 for a family of four. However, Detroit contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Detroit is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Detroit home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Detroit residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Detroit include English, Irish, German, Other Arab, and French.

The most common language spoken in Detroit is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 97.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.

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 Detroit are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.3% of U.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, 31.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 22.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.0%), and 17.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.9% of households. Some people also speak Polish (3.2%).

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 Detroit, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Dutch ancestry (2.2%), along with some Swiss ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (12.1%) . 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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