Mont Belvieu is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 8,946 people and just one neighborhood, Mont Belvieu is the 297th largest community in Texas. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Mont Belvieu, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Mont Belvieu, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Mont Belvieu’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Mont Belvieu does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $132,010.00.
Mont Belvieu real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Mont Belvieu house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Mont Belvieu is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mont Belvieu is a city of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mont Belvieu who work in management occupations (23.71%), office and administrative support (14.66%), and business and financial occupations (7.50%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.21% 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.
Because of many things, Mont Belvieu is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Mont Belvieu really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Mont Belvieu perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
Being a small city, Mont Belvieu does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Mont Belvieu are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.85% of adults in Mont Belvieu have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Mont Belvieu in 2022 was $50,664, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $202,656 for a family of four.
Mont Belvieu is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mont Belvieu home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mont Belvieu residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mont Belvieu also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mont Belvieu include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mont Belvieu is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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 Mont Belvieu are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 86.3% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.6% 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, 46.6% 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 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.5%), and 10.3% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (14.0%).
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 Mont Belvieu, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.
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 (31.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.9%) 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 (16.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.