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New Waverly, TX

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Overview


New Waverly is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 956 people and just one neighborhood, New Waverly is the 842nd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

New Waverly is a blue-collar town, with 44.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Waverly is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Waverly who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (13.39%), office and administrative support (10.93%), and management occupations (5.46%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The city 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, New Waverly has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Waverly a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in New Waverly, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.17 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small city, New Waverly doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of New Waverly rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.48% of adults 25 and older in New Waverly have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in New Waverly in 2022 was $26,324, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,296 for a family of four. However, New Waverly contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

The most common language spoken in New Waverly is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 New Waverly, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Of particular note, 13.3% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

The Neighbors

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 New Waverly are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 33.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.5% 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, 35.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in New Waverly, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report German roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.1% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (20.2%) . 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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