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Ore City is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,155 people and just one neighborhood, Ore City is the 804th largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ore City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.72% of the Ore City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ore City is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ore City who work in office and administrative support (14.12%), management occupations (10.17%), and sales jobs (7.06%).
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, Ore City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ore City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Ore City is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
The population of Ore City has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.33% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Ore City in 2022 was $18,411, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,644 for a family of four. However, Ore City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ore City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ore City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ore City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ore City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.11% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ore City include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Slovene.
The most common language spoken in Ore City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.0% of all American neighborhoods.
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 Ore City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 32.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.3%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Ore City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.4%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
