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Devers is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 434 people and just one neighborhood, Devers is the 973rd largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some cities, Devers isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Devers are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Devers is a city of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Devers who work in sales jobs (16.67%), teaching (11.11%), and management occupations (9.52%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Devers. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
Setting & Lifestyle
Residents will find that the city 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, Devers is worth considering.
One downside of living in Devers is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Devers, the average commute to work is 30.75 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Devers is a very car-oriented city. 97.74% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Devers is a small city , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Devers has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Devers is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
In Devers, just 9.38% 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 Devers in 2022 was $34,456, 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 $137,824 for a family of four. However, Devers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Devers is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Devers home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Devers residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Devers also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.44% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Devers include German, French, European, Irish, and British West Indian.
Devers also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 15.05%.
The most common language spoken in Devers is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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 Devers, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
People
Of particular note, 3.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.6% 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 97.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 91.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Devers are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 22.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.0% 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, 36.6% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.3%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (29.4%).
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 Devers, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (35.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report English roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 16.0% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.9%) 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 (18.8%) . 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.
