Jewett is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 822 people and two associated neighborhoods, Jewett is the 869th largest community in Texas.Jewett is a blue-collar town, with 40.85% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Jewett is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jewett who work in office and administrative support (17.77%), food service (14.32%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (11.14%). 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!) Jewett 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. Jewett has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Jewett than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Jewett may be for you.Jewett ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.68% of people over 25 have a college degree. The per capita income in Jewett in 2022 was $20,596, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $82,384 for a family of four. However, Jewett contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Jewett also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.77% of its population below the federal poverty line.Jewett is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Jewett 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 Jewett, accounting for 51.44% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Jewett residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Jewett include Scots-Irish, English, German, Irish, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Jewett is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
