Castroville is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,077 people and just one neighborhood, Castroville is the 524th largest community in Texas.
Castroville real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Castroville house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Castroville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Castroville is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Castroville who work in office and administrative support (11.17%), management occupations (10.95%), and teaching (10.28%).
Also of interest is that Castroville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Castroville telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.41% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
In Castroville, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 30.78 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The overall education level of Castroville is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.39% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Castroville in 2022 was $33,706, 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 $134,824 for a family of four. However, Castroville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Castroville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Castroville 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 Castroville, accounting for 48.76% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Castroville residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Castroville include German, Irish, English, Alsatian, and French.
The most common language spoken in Castroville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Castroville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 52.5% 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, 41.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.6%), and 14.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.6%).
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 Castroville, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.4%), and residents who report English roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.7%), along with some Puerto Rican ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (78.6%) 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 (11.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.