Lacy-Lakeview is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 7,309 people and just one neighborhood, Lacy-Lakeview is the 311th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lacy-Lakeview is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.19% of the Lacy-Lakeview workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lacy-Lakeview is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lacy-Lakeview who work in sales jobs (11.05%), office and administrative support (10.67%), and healthcare suport services (7.89%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.33% 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.
Lacy-Lakeview is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Lacy-Lakeview rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.77% of adults 25 and older in Lacy-Lakeview have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Lacy-Lakeview in 2022 was $26,989, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,956 for a family of four. However, Lacy-Lakeview contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lacy-Lakeview is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lacy-Lakeview home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lacy-Lakeview residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lacy-Lakeview also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.31% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lacy-Lakeview include German, English, Irish, African, and Danish.
The most common language spoken in Lacy-Lakeview is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry.
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 Lacy-Lakeview are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.0% 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, 34.8% 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 32.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 15.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 75.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.5%).
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 Lacy-Lakeview, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report German roots (7.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (5.1%), along with some African ancestry residents (5.1%), among others. In addition, 12.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (6.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.