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Sansom Park, TX

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Overview


Sansom Park is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,359 people and just one neighborhood, Sansom Park is the 356th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Sansom Park is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.93% of the Sansom Park workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Sansom Park is a city of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sansom Park who work in office and administrative support (18.69%), food service (7.49%), and healthcare suport services (7.26%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, Sansom Park does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Sansom Park has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.65% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Sansom Park in 2022 was $22,263, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,052 for a family of four. However, Sansom Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sansom Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sansom Park 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 Sansom Park, accounting for 66.73% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Sansom Park residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Sansom Park include English, Irish, German, British, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Sansom Park is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (30.0%) than in 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 46.4% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.8% of American neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.3% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Sansom Park are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 42.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.6% 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, 46.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.9%), and 10.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 52.0% of households. Some people also speak English (47.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Sansom Park, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.3%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 14.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (35.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (66.0%) 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 (30.0%) . 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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