Grand Saline is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,219 people and just one neighborhood, Grand Saline is the 508th largest community in Texas.
Grand Saline is a blue-collar town, with 40.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Grand Saline is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Grand Saline who work in food service (11.31%), office and administrative support (8.97%), and sales jobs (6.71%).
Also of interest is that Grand Saline has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Being a small city, Grand Saline does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Grand Saline have a very low rate of college education: just 9.06% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Grand Saline in 2022 was $25,683, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,732 for a family of four. However, Grand Saline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Grand Saline is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Grand Saline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Grand Saline residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Grand Saline also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.59% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Grand Saline include Irish, English, German, French, and Scots-Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Grand Saline's cultural character, accounting for 17.05% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Grand Saline is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
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 96.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 Grand Saline are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 91.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% 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, 35.0% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.1%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.3%).
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 Grand Saline, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report English roots (6.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (4.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 16.1% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.3%) 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 (19.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.