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Garciasville is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 43 people and just one neighborhood, Garciasville is the 1052nd largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Garciasville, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 78.38% of Garciasville’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Garciasville is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Garciasville who work in maintenance occupations (21.62%), office and administrative support (0.00%), and sales jobs (0.00%).
Setting & Lifestyle
Overall, Garciasville’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Garciasville 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. Garciasville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Garciasville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Garciasville may be for you.
Garciasville is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
Demographics
Garciasville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Garciasville in 2022 was $9,029, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $36,116 for a family of four.
Garciasville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Garciasville 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 Garciasville, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Garciasville residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Garciasville include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Garciasville's cultural character, accounting for 40.81% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Garciasville is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include African languages and Arabic.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Modes of Transportation
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (29.4%) than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
Length of Commute
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. 69.8% 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 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
People
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 86.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 96.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Garciasville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 51.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 38.4% 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 33.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.5%).
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 96.2% of households. Some people also speak English (3.8%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Garciasville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (86.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Italian roots (2.0%). In addition, 20.7% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (69.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.6%) 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 (29.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
