Pipe Creek is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 10,435 people and four associated neighborhoods, Pipe Creek is the second largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Pipe Creek, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Pipe Creek, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Pipe Creek’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Pipe Creek does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $77,092.00.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.13% 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.
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, Pipe Creek has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pipe Creek a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Pipe Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.07 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Pipe Creek doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Pipe Creek is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.57% of adults in Pipe Creek have a college degree.
The per capita income in Pipe Creek in 2022 was $43,156, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,624 for a family of four. However, Pipe Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pipe Creek is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pipe Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pipe Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Pipe Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.69% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pipe Creek include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Pipe Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.