Bovina - Farwell is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,811 people and just one neighborhood, Bovina - Farwell is the 386th largest community in Texas.
Bovina - Farwell is a blue-collar town, with 39.64% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Bovina - Farwell is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bovina - Farwell who work in office and administrative support (10.29%), teaching (9.62%), and management occupations (8.38%).
Being a small town, Bovina - Farwell does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Bovina - Farwell who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.01% of the adults in Bovina - Farwell have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bovina - Farwell in 2022 was $24,411, 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 $97,644 for a family of four. However, Bovina - Farwell contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Bovina - Farwell is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bovina - Farwell 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 Bovina - Farwell, accounting for 61.25% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Bovina - Farwell residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Bovina - Farwell include German, Irish, English, Scots-Irish, and Scottish.
In addition, Bovina - Farwell has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (24.13%).
The most common language spoken in Bovina - Farwell is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 9 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.2% of America.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Bovina - Farwell are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 34.9% 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 31.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (16.4%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (48.3%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Bovina - Farwell, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (60.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (5.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 24.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.