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San Felipe, TX

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Overview


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. Much of the housing stock in San Felipe was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local San Felipe economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in San Felipe, where the median household income is $54,013.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, San Felipe isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Felipe are a mix 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%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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.

One downside of living in San Felipe is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In San Felipe, the average commute to work is 36.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, San Felipe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, San Felipe is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.99% of adults 25 and older 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.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

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.

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 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.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 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.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. 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.


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