Kemah is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,562 people and just one neighborhood, Kemah is the 675th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, Kemah isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kemah are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kemah is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kemah who work in sales jobs (15.61%), food service (9.48%), and management occupations (9.48%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.11% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Kemah is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The overall education level of Kemah citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 33.00% of adults in Kemah have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Kemah in 2022 was $41,785, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,140 for a family of four. However, Kemah contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Kemah is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kemah home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kemah residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Kemah also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.84% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kemah include German, English, Irish, Welsh, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Kemah's cultural character, accounting for 15.73% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Kemah is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Japanese.
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 Kemah, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Japanese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Kemah are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 71.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 40.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.1%), and 10.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 79.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Kemah, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report English roots (12.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (6.5%), among others. In addition, 12.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.