Rio Bravo is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,326 people and just one neighborhood, Rio Bravo is the 411th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rio Bravo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.06% of the Rio Bravo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rio Bravo is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rio Bravo who work in food service (11.42%), maintenance occupations (10.06%), and healthcare suport services (7.68%).
Rio Bravo’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
One downside of living in Rio Bravo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.98 minutes every day commuting to work.
In terms of college education, Rio Bravo ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.38% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Rio Bravo in 2022 was $12,467, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $49,868 for a family of four. However, Rio Bravo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rio Bravo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Rio Bravo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rio Bravo 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 Rio Bravo, accounting for 96.46% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Rio Bravo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rio Bravo include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
In addition, Rio Bravo has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (26.17%).
The most common language spoken in Rio Bravo is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.6% 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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 86.0% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
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, 95.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Rio Bravo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 52.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.7% 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, 44.1% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 11.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak English (6.2%).
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 Rio Bravo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (95.0%). In addition, 26.2% 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.