McCamey is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,717 people and just one neighborhood, McCamey is the 670th largest community in Texas.
When you are in McCamey, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.60% of McCamey’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, McCamey is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in McCamey who work in food service (8.73%), healthcare (7.84%), and management occupations (6.21%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, McCamey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes McCamey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
McCamey 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 population of McCamey has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.13% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in McCamey in 2022 was $22,759, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,036 for a family of four. However, McCamey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
McCamey is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call McCamey 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 McCamey, accounting for 69.90% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of McCamey residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in McCamey include English, Irish, German, Northern European, and Eastern European.
The most common language spoken in McCamey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 65.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 McCamey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 35.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.1% 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, 35.7% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 10.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 55.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (44.9%).
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 McCamey, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (65.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Puerto Rican roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.9%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.0%) 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 (7.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.