Bedias is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 380 people and just one neighborhood, Bedias is the 973rd largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, Bedias isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bedias are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bedias is a city of sales and office workers, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bedias who work in management occupations (18.45%), law enforcement and fire fighting (12.62%), and office and administrative support (10.68%).
Also of interest is that Bedias has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city 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, Bedias has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bedias a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Bedias, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 39.00 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, Bedias doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In Bedias, just 9.33% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Bedias in 2022 was $27,377, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $109,508 for a family of four. However, Bedias contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bedias is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bedias home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bedias residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Bedias also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.36% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bedias include English, German, Irish, French, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Bedias is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Scandinavian languages.
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.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 37.8%, which is higher than 97.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Bedias are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 80.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.5%), and 17.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (7.6%).
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 Bedias, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report English roots (12.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.1%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (2.7%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (82.4%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.