Robert Lee is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,037 people and just one neighborhood, Robert Lee is the 817th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities, Robert Lee isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Robert Lee are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Robert Lee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Robert Lee who work in office and administrative support (23.01%), management occupations (10.25%), and maintenance occupations (9.34%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.85% 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.
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Robert Lee 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. Robert Lee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Robert Lee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Robert Lee may be for you.
Robert Lee 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 Robert Lee, just 7.49% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Robert Lee in 2022 was $25,474, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,896 for a family of four. However, Robert Lee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Robert Lee is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Robert Lee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Robert Lee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Robert Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Robert Lee include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Robert Lee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.8% of 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 Robert Lee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 31.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (22.6%), and 18.6% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.0%).
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 Robert Lee, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report German roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (5.3%), among others.
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 (44.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.