Lake Worth is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,616 people and just one neighborhood, Lake Worth is the 398th largest community in Texas.
When you are in Lake Worth, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 36.44% of Lake Worth’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lake Worth is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Worth who work in office and administrative support (16.50%), sales jobs (10.58%), and maintenance occupations (6.18%).
A relatively large number of people in Lake Worth telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.24% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Being a small city, Lake Worth does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Lake Worth citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.86% of adults 25 and older in Lake Worth have a college degree.
The per capita income in Lake Worth in 2022 was $47,385, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $189,540 for a family of four. However, Lake Worth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Worth is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Worth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lake Worth residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lake Worth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lake Worth include English, Irish, German, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Lake Worth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 22.7% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry.
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 Lake Worth are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 42.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.8% 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, 35.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 19.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.3%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Lake Worth, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.1%), among others. In addition, 11.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (39.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.1%) 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 (22.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.