Westworth Village is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,635 people and just one neighborhood, Westworth Village is the 565th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Westworth Village was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Westworth Village economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Westworth Village, where the median household income is $72,865.00.
Westworth Village is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Westworth Village is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Westworth Village who work in management occupations (15.22%), office and administrative support (10.76%), and sales jobs (8.93%).
There are many members of the armed forces living in Westworth Village. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.90% 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.
The overall education level of Westworth Village citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 30.56% of adults in Westworth Village have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Westworth Village in 2022 was $45,823, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $183,292 for a family of four. However, Westworth Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Westworth Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Westworth Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Westworth Village residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Westworth Village also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.76% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Westworth Village include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and European.
The most common language spoken in Westworth Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.
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 Westworth Village, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 97.3% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
is ranked among the top 5.3% of neighborhoods for first-time home buyers to consider in the state of Texas according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Homes here are priced below median housing values in the state, yet maintain moderate appreciation rates compared to other communities. Buying into the neighborhood is not only an accessible option but an investment opportunity for many first-time home buyers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Iranian ancestry.
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 Westworth Village are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 34.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 84.9% 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, 44.9% 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.3%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.7%).
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 Westworth Village, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.9%), and residents who report English roots (10.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.