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San Felipe, TX

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Overview


San Felipe is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 713 people and just one neighborhood, San Felipe is the 895th largest community in Texas. San Felipe has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in San Felipe, where the median household income is $54,013.00.

Occupations and Workforce

San Felipe is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, San Felipe is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Felipe who work in personal care services (16.50%), sales jobs (14.75%), and maintenance occupations (14.50%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) San Felipe has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. San Felipe has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in San Felipe than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, San Felipe may be for you.

One downside of living in San Felipe, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.38 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, San Felipe does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in San Felipe who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.99% of the adults in San Felipe have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in San Felipe in 2022 was $26,794, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,176 for a family of four. However, San Felipe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Felipe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Felipe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Felipe residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. San Felipe also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.31% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in San Felipe include German, English, Scots-Irish, Czech, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in San Felipe is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in San Felipe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.9% 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 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.7%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in San Felipe, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (16.5%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (85.6%) 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 (11.6%) . 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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