Shepherd is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,979 people and two associated neighborhoods, Shepherd is the 630th largest community in Texas.Shepherd is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Shepherd is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shepherd who work in office and administrative support (11.48%), healthcare suport services (10.08%), and maintenance occupations (9.18%). One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.53% 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. The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Shepherd has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Shepherd a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. One downside of living in Shepherd is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Shepherd, the average commute to work is 31.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Shepherd 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.The population of Shepherd has a very low overall level of education: only 7.43% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher. The per capita income in Shepherd in 2022 was $25,425, 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 $101,700 for a family of four. However, Shepherd contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shepherd is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Shepherd home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shepherd residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Shepherd also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.49% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Shepherd include German, English, Irish, Polish, and Italian. The most common language spoken in Shepherd is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
