Booker - Darrouzett is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,880 people and just one neighborhood, Booker - Darrouzett is the 650th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns, Booker - Darrouzett isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Booker - Darrouzett are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Booker - Darrouzett is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Booker - Darrouzett who work in management occupations (10.38%), office and administrative support (9.43%), and healthcare (8.79%).
Because of many things, Booker - Darrouzett is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Booker - Darrouzett really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Booker - Darrouzett perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.
One of the benefits of Booker - Darrouzett is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.66 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Booker - Darrouzett does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Booker - Darrouzett are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.35% of adults in Booker - Darrouzett having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Booker - Darrouzett in 2022 was $30,343, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $121,372 for a family of four. However, Booker - Darrouzett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Booker - Darrouzett is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Booker - Darrouzett home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Booker - Darrouzett, accounting for 47.58% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Booker - Darrouzett residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Booker - Darrouzett include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
Booker - Darrouzett also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 20.58%.
The most common language spoken in Booker - Darrouzett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research reveals that 89.9% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 96.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 58.6% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 11.8% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Texas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
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 Booker - Darrouzett are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 43.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% 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, 34.0% 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 33.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 9.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 59.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (39.0%).
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 Booker - Darrouzett, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 20.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (58.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (89.9%) 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 (8.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.