New Summerfield is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 888 people and just one neighborhood, New Summerfield is the 860th largest community in Texas.
New Summerfield is a blue-collar town, with 44.86% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, New Summerfield is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in New Summerfield who work in management occupations (15.71%), office and administrative support (12.57%), and sales jobs (11.14%).
In addition, many people in New Summerfield have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that New Summerfield has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.41% 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 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, New Summerfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes New Summerfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, New Summerfield doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of New Summerfield has a very low overall level of education: only 8.23% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in New Summerfield in 2022 was $25,573, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,292 for a family of four. However, New Summerfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
New Summerfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call New Summerfield 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 New Summerfield, accounting for 72.46% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of New Summerfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in New Summerfield include Irish, English, German, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
In addition, New Summerfield has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (33.68%).
The most common language spoken in New Summerfield is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 93.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 New Summerfield are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.8% 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, 33.4% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.6%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 71.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.1%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in New Summerfield, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (28.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 15.5% 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 (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.1%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.