Ore City is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,155 people and just one neighborhood, Ore City is the 804th largest community in Texas.
Ore City is a blue-collar town, with 36.72% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ore City is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ore City who work in office and administrative support (14.12%), management occupations (10.17%), and sales jobs (7.06%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Ore City has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Ore City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ore City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ore City may be for you.
Being a small city, Ore City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Ore City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.33% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ore City in 2022 was $18,411, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,644 for a family of four. However, Ore City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ore City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ore City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ore City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ore City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.11% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ore City include Irish, German, English, Scots-Irish, and Slovene.
The most common language spoken in Ore City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Our research reveals that 90.6% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Ore City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.4% 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, 32.6% 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.3%), and 16.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.8%).
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 Ore City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.4%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (90.6%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.