Ore City is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,175 people and just one neighborhood, Ore City is the 804th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ore City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 43.66% of the Ore City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ore City is a city of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ore City who work in office and administrative support (10.80%), management occupations (9.86%), and community and social services (7.75%).
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, Ore City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ore City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Ore City 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.
In Ore City, just 6.86% 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 Ore City in 2022 was $23,708, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,832 for a family of four. However, Ore City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ore City is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ore City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ore City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ore City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.96% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ore City include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ore City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Ore City, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Our research reveals that 91.8% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 98.5% 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 Ore City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 34.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.9%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.5%).
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 Ore City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (91.8%) 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 (7.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.