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Cockrell Hill is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,686 people and just one neighborhood, Cockrell Hill is the 453rd largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Cockrell Hill, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 46.06% of Cockrell Hill’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Cockrell Hill is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cockrell Hill who work in office and administrative support (14.07%), maintenance occupations (9.69%), and sales jobs (6.48%).
Setting & Lifestyle
One downside of living in Cockrell Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.34 minutes every day commuting to work.
Demographics
The citizens of Cockrell Hill have a very low rate of college education: just 9.96% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Cockrell Hill in 2022 was $24,208, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,832 for a family of four. However, Cockrell Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cockrell Hill is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cockrell Hill 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 Cockrell Hill, accounting for 84.71% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cockrell Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Cockrell Hill include German, English, French, Polish, and Italian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Cockrell Hill's cultural character, accounting for 27.59% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in Cockrell Hill is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Miao/Hmong.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cockrell Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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, 83.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 69.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Cockrell Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.2% 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, 46.1% 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 24.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.8%), and 13.4% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 69.2% of households. Some people also speak English (30.8%).
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 Cockrell Hill, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.2%). In addition, 27.6% 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 (37.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.2%) 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 (13.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
