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Cuney, TX

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Overview


Cuney is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 115 people and just one neighborhood, Cuney is the 1039th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Cuney was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Cuney economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Cuney, where the median household income is $33,750.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cuney is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cuney is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cuney who work in office and administrative support (31.58%), healthcare suport services (21.05%), and teaching (8.77%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Cuney’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

The town 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, Cuney has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cuney a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Cuney is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Cuney, the average commute to work is 33.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Cuney is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Cuney isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Cuney doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Cuney ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Cuney in 2022 was $16,908, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $67,632 for a family of four. However, Cuney contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Cuney also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.68% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Cuney is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cuney 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 Cuney, accounting for 41.83% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cuney residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cuney include Irish, Dutch, German, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Cuney is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 38 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.2% of America.

The Neighbors

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 Cuney are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 13.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 57.5% 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, 34.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 10.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cuney, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.4%), and residents who report German roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.2%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (40.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (67.2%) 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 (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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