Kendleton is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 352 people and just one neighborhood, Kendleton is the 978th largest community in Texas.
Kendleton is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.07% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Kendleton is a city of service providers, managers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kendleton who work in healthcare suport services (22.95%), maintenance occupations (13.93%), and management occupations (12.30%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.66% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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, Kendleton has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Kendleton a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Kendleton doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Kendleton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.77% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Kendleton in 2022 was $27,587, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $110,348 for a family of four. However, Kendleton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Kendleton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.63% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Kendleton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kendleton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kendleton residents report their race to be Black or African-American. Kendleton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kendleton include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Kendleton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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 Kendleton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 28 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Kendleton is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.3% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
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 Kendleton 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 35.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.4% 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, 31.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.1%), and 15.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 81.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.6%).
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 Kendleton, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report English roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 11.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (41.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.0%) 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 (5.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.