Meadow is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 613 people and just one neighborhood, Meadow is the 916th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Meadow is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.50% of the Meadow workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Meadow is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Meadow who work in office and administrative support (31.11%), farm management occupations (14.17%), and management occupations (8.89%).
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!) Meadow 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. Meadow has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Meadow than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Meadow may be for you.
One downside of living in Meadow is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Meadow, the average commute to work is 33.53 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Meadow doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Meadow has a very low overall level of education: only 7.97% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Meadow in 2022 was $21,942, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,768 for a family of four. However, Meadow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Meadow is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Meadow 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 Meadow, accounting for 79.26% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Meadow residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Meadow include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Yugoslavian.
The most common language spoken in Meadow is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and German/Yiddish.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
Significantly, 14.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.7% 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 Meadow are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 52.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.8% of America'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, 29.6% 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 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.7%), and 15.5% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 58.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Meadow, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%). In addition, 15.4% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.