Stockdale is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,470 people and just one neighborhood, Stockdale is the 744th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stockdale is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.81% of the Stockdale workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stockdale is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Stockdale who work in sales jobs (14.26%), office and administrative support (9.57%), and personal care services (7.45%).
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, Stockdale has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stockdale a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Stockdale, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.91 minutes every day commuting to work.
The percentage of people in Stockdale with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.99% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Stockdale in 2022 was $24,198, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,792 for a family of four. However, Stockdale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Stockdale is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Stockdale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Stockdale, accounting for 54.12% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Stockdale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Stockdale include German, Polish, Irish, Czech, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Stockdale 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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 46.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.3%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Significantly, 8.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Stockdale are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 10.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.0% of America'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, 41.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.1%), and 13.3% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 71.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Stockdale, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.7%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.1%), among others.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (80.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.