Deer Park is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 33,176 people and six associated neighborhoods, Deer Park is the 100th largest community in Texas.Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Deer Park is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Deer Park is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Deer Park who work in office and administrative support (11.38%), sales jobs (10.28%), and management occupations (8.89%). Also of interest is that Deer Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.59% 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. The percentage of people in Deer Park who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.45% of adults in Deer Park have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Deer Park in 2022 was $42,156, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $168,624 for a family of four. However, Deer Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Deer Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Deer Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Deer Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Deer Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.18% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Deer Park include German, English, Irish, Italian, and European. The most common language spoken in Deer Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
