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Meadow, TX

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Overview


Meadow is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 613 people and just one neighborhood, Meadow is the 916th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Meadow is a blue-collar town, with 40.17% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Meadow is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Meadow who work in office and administrative support (32.76%), management occupations (9.40%), and farm management occupations (7.98%).

Setting & Lifestyle

The town 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, Meadow has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Meadow a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Meadow, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.04 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Meadow doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The population of Meadow has a very low overall level of education: only 9.65% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Meadow in 2022 was $23,361, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,444 for a family of four. However, Meadow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Meadow is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Meadow 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 Meadow, accounting for 76.06% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Meadow residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Meadow include English, German, Irish, European, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Meadow is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and German/Yiddish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 15.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Meadow are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.9% 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, 28.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.7%), and 13.7% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

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 57.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Meadow, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.5%), along with some Canadian ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 18.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.2%) 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 (15.1%) . 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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