Blooming Grove - Frost is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,146 people and just one neighborhood, Blooming Grove - Frost is the 399th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns, Blooming Grove - Frost isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Blooming Grove - Frost are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Blooming Grove - Frost is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blooming Grove - Frost who work in management occupations (11.16%), sales jobs (9.86%), and office and administrative support (9.58%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.59% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
One downside of living in Blooming Grove - Frost, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.78 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small town, Blooming Grove - Frost does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Blooming Grove - Frost with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.37% of adults in Blooming Grove - Frost have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blooming Grove - Frost in 2022 was $32,082, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $128,328 for a family of four. However, Blooming Grove - Frost contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blooming Grove - Frost is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blooming Grove - Frost home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blooming Grove - Frost residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Blooming Grove - Frost include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Blooming Grove - Frost 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 Blooming Grove - Frost, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Blooming Grove - Frost are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.6% 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, 30.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 30.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (25.5%), and 12.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).
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 Blooming Grove - Frost, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (9.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.1%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.6%), among others.
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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.