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Oak Ridge North, TX

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Overview


Oak Ridge North is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,995 people and just one neighborhood, Oak Ridge North is the 514th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Oak Ridge North is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Oak Ridge North is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oak Ridge North who work in management occupations (11.90%), office and administrative support (10.40%), and sales jobs (10.21%).

Also of interest is that Oak Ridge North has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Oak Ridge North has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.97% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Oak Ridge North, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.55 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

Oak Ridge North is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 40.33% of adults in Oak Ridge North have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Oak Ridge North in 2022 was $59,568, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $238,272 for a family of four.

Oak Ridge North is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Oak Ridge North home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oak Ridge North residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oak Ridge North include English, German, Irish, European, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Oak Ridge North is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

People

Of note is NeighborhoodScout's research finding that the neighborhood has some of the lowest rates of children living in poverty of any neighborhood in the United States. In a nation where approximately 1 in 4 children are living in poverty, the community truly stands out from the rest in this regard.

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 Oak Ridge North are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 52.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 20.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.7%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.3%).

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 Oak Ridge North, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (4.2%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.0% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (5.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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