Beckville is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 754 people and just one neighborhood, Beckville is the 890th largest community in Texas.
Beckville is a blue-collar town, with 56.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Beckville is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Beckville who work in office and administrative support (14.23%), sales jobs (6.05%), and personal care services (5.69%).
Of important note, Beckville is also a city of artists. Beckville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Beckville’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.74% 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!) Beckville 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. Beckville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Beckville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Beckville may be for you.
Beckville 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.
Beckville ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.80% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Beckville in 2022 was $26,794, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,176 for a family of four. However, Beckville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Beckville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Beckville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Beckville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Beckville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.36% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Beckville include Irish, German, English, Iranian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Beckville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 11.8% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of all neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.1% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, 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 19 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.0% of America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 95.7% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 1.5% have Iranian ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Beckville are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 42.0% 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 26.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.5%), and 13.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Beckville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (10.9%), along with some Canadian ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (11.8%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (86.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.