Scurry is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 871 people and three associated neighborhoods, Scurry is the 896th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Scurry was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Scurry economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Scurry, where the median household income is $84,732.00.Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Scurry is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.07% of the Scurry workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Scurry is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Scurry who work in teaching (9.86%), healthcare (9.52%), and sales jobs (7.82%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.54% 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 town 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!) Scurry 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. Scurry has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Scurry than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Scurry may be for you. One downside of living in Scurry, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.45 minutes every day commuting to work. Scurry is a small town, 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, Scurry is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.69% of adults 25 and older in Scurry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Scurry in 2022 was $30,285, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $121,140 for a family of four. However, Scurry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Scurry is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Scurry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Scurry residents report their race to be White. Scurry also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.67% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Scurry include English, German, Irish, Italian, and Scandinavian. The most common language spoken in Scurry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
