San Felipe is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 715 people and just one neighborhood, San Felipe is the 895th largest community in Texas. San Felipe has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in San Felipe, where the median household income is $54,013.00.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, San Felipe is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Felipe is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Felipe who work in personal care services (16.50%), sales jobs (14.75%), and maintenance occupations (14.50%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, San Felipe is worth considering.
In San Felipe, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 36.38 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, San Felipe doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in San Felipe who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.99% of the adults in San Felipe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in San Felipe in 2022 was $26,794, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,176 for a family of four. However, San Felipe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
San Felipe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Felipe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Felipe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. San Felipe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.31% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in San Felipe include German, English, Scots-Irish, Czech, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in San Felipe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
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 San Felipe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% 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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.7%).
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 San Felipe, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.4% 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 (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.