Pipe Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 10,435 people and four associated neighborhoods, Pipe Creek is the second largest community in Texas. Pipe Creek has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Pipe Creek, where the median household income is $77,092.00.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.13% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Pipe Creek has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Pipe Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pipe Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pipe Creek may be for you.
One downside of living in Pipe Creek, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.07 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Pipe Creek does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The education level of Pipe Creek citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.57% of adults in Pipe Creek have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pipe Creek in 2022 was $43,156, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,624 for a family of four. However, Pipe Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pipe Creek is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pipe Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pipe Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Pipe Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pipe Creek include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Pipe Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.