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Petrolia - Byers, TX

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Overview


Petrolia - Byers is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,429 people and just one neighborhood, Petrolia - Byers is the 425th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Petrolia - Byers, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.10% of Petrolia - Byers’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Petrolia - Byers is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Petrolia - Byers who work in office and administrative support (11.98%), management occupations (11.53%), and sales jobs (10.04%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Petrolia - Byers 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. Petrolia - Byers has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Petrolia - Byers than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Petrolia - Byers may be for you.

Petrolia - Byers is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Petrolia - Byers who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.99% of the adults in Petrolia - Byers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Petrolia - Byers in 2018 was $38,879, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $155,516 for a family of four. However, Petrolia - Byers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Petrolia - Byers is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Petrolia - Byers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Petrolia - Byers residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Petrolia - Byers also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.41% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Petrolia - Byers include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Petrolia - Byers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.

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.

Real Estate

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 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.4% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 6.0% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in Texas, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in Texas.

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 Petrolia - Byers are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 5.2% 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 63.9% 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, 35.9% 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 30.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.7%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.8%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Petrolia - Byers, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (9.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (11.9%) . 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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