Mart is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,849 people and just one neighborhood, Mart is the 688th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mart is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.57% of the Mart workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mart is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mart who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (10.94%), maintenance occupations (8.89%), and office and administrative support (7.11%).
As is often the case in a small city, Mart doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Mart is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.42% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mart in 2022 was $21,344, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,376 for a family of four. However, Mart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mart is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mart home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mart residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mart also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.64% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mart include German, Irish, English, African, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Mart is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Mart, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 6.5% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 15.4% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Mart are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.5% 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, 32.5% 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 31.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.0%), and 15.4% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.1%).
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 Mart, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.6%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (3.5%), among others.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (11.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.