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Winona, TX

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Overview


Winona is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 679 people and just one neighborhood, Winona is the 908th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Winona is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Winona is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winona who work in office and administrative support (15.94%), personal care services (14.78%), and healthcare (8.41%).

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

In Winona, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.22 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Winona does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In Winona, just 11.64% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Winona in 2022 was $29,216, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,864 for a family of four. However, Winona contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Winona is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Winona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winona residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Winona include German, Irish, English, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Winona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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

People

Of note, 59.0% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more West Indian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.6% of this neighborhood's residents have West Indian ancestry.

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 Winona are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 59.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% 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, 31.4% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (25.2%), and 14.0% 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 95.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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 Winona, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.8%), 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 (51.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (72.9%) 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 (15.6%) . 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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