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Blooming Grove - Frost, TX

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Overview


Blooming Grove - Frost is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,972 people and just one neighborhood, Blooming Grove - Frost is the 399th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Blooming Grove - Frost isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blooming Grove - Frost are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blooming Grove - Frost is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blooming Grove - Frost who work in management occupations (11.16%), sales jobs (9.86%), and office and administrative support (9.58%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.59% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Blooming Grove - Frost is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Blooming Grove - Frost, the average commute to work is 32.78 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Blooming Grove - Frost does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Blooming Grove - Frost rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.37% of adults 25 and older in Blooming Grove - Frost have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Blooming Grove - Frost in 2022 was $32,082, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,328 for a family of four. However, Blooming Grove - Frost contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Blooming Grove - Frost is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blooming Grove - Frost home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blooming Grove - Frost residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blooming Grove - Frost include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.

The most common language spoken in Blooming Grove - Frost is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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

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 92.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Blooming Grove - Frost are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.5%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Blooming Grove - Frost, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (6.7%) . 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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