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Ringgold, TX

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Overview


Ringgold is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 146 people and just one neighborhood, Ringgold is the 1033rd largest community in Texas. Ringgold has an unusually large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns.

Occupations and Workforce

Ringgold is a blue-collar town, with 44.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Ringgold is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ringgold who work in teaching (20.59%), maintenance occupations (17.65%), and healthcare suport services (8.82%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.13% 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

Ringgold is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Ringgold’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

The town 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, Ringgold has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ringgold a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Ringgold is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ringgold, the average commute to work is 39.52 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Ringgold doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The education level of Ringgold citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.00% of adults in Ringgold have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ringgold in 2022 was $22,526, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $90,104 for a family of four. However, Ringgold contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Ringgold is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Ringgold home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ringgold residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Ringgold include English, Scots-Irish, German, Northern European, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in Ringgold is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.8% of America.

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 Ringgold are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 32.9% 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 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.7%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.6% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Ringgold, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.3%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (1.9%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (12.0%) . 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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