Laneville is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,915 people and just one neighborhood, Laneville is the 532nd largest community in Texas.
Laneville is a blue-collar town, with 36.27% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Laneville is a town of service providers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Laneville who work in sales jobs (12.64%), management occupations (9.59%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.81%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Laneville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Laneville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Laneville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.98 minutes every day commuting to work.
Laneville 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.
The percentage of adults in Laneville with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.93% of adults in Laneville have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Laneville in 2022 was $32,263, which is middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $129,052 for a family of four. However, Laneville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Laneville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Laneville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Laneville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Laneville include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Laneville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 24.4% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Greek at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Laneville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.0% 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, 35.6% 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 30.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (24.3%), and 9.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 93.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.0%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Laneville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (13.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (1.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.9%) 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 (24.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.