Hutchins is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 6,149 people and just one neighborhood, Hutchins is the 350th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Hutchins was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Hutchins economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Hutchins, where the median household income is $45,250.00.
Hutchins is a blue-collar town, with 51.06% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hutchins is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Hutchins who work in office and administrative support (15.93%), food service (7.08%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (5.61%).
One downside of living in Hutchins is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Hutchins, the average commute to work is 35.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The population of Hutchins has a very low overall level of education: only 6.07% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Hutchins in 2022 was $16,418, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $65,672 for a family of four. However, Hutchins contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hutchins is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hutchins 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 Hutchins, accounting for 49.47% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hutchins residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Hutchins include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and African.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Hutchins's cultural character, accounting for 19.99% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Hutchins is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Hutchins, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.4% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
In addition, the neighborhood is unique for having just 4.9% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.4% of America's neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 51.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 99.1% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 0.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Yugoslav ancestry.
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 Hutchins are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 87.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 43.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 51.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.4%), and 6.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 58.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (39.9%).
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 Hutchins, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (38.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report German roots (3.7%), and some of the residents are also of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.3%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 17.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (30.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.9%) 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 (17.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.