Valley Mills is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,301 people and just one neighborhood, Valley Mills is the 783rd largest community in Texas.
When you are in Valley Mills, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 37.39% of Valley Mills’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Valley Mills is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Valley Mills who work in healthcare suport services (13.25%), office and administrative support (11.62%), and food service (8.53%).
Being a small city, Valley Mills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Valley Mills have a very low rate of college education: just 7.83% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Valley Mills in 2022 was $23,727, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $94,908 for a family of four. However, Valley Mills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Valley Mills is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Valley Mills home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Valley Mills residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Valley Mills also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.27% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Valley Mills include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Valley Mills is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Valley Mills, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 22 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.3% of 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 Valley Mills are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 73.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 6.2% 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 60.4% of America'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, 31.6% 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 29.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 18.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.8%).
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 Valley Mills, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report English roots (9.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.4%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (1.7%), 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (86.5%) 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 (9.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.