Kempner is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,283 people and two associated neighborhoods, Kempner is the 799th largest community in Texas.Unlike some cities, Kempner isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Kempner are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Kempner is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Kempner who work in office and administrative support (16.75%), management occupations (11.16%), and business and financial occupations (7.34%). Also of interest is that Kempner has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 18.72% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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!) Kempner 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. Kempner has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Kempner than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Kempner may be for you. In Kempner, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.03 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. Kempner 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 terms of college education, the citizens of Kempner rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.19% of adults 25 and older in Kempner have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Kempner in 2022 was $38,061, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,244 for a family of four. However, Kempner contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Kempner is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Kempner home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Kempner residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Kempner also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Kempner include Irish, German, English, Swedish, and Scottish. The most common language spoken in Kempner is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
