Hart is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 855 people and just one neighborhood, Hart is the 852nd largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Hart is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 51.45% of the Hart workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Hart is a city of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hart who work in farm management occupations (20.58%), teaching (12.40%), and healthcare suport services (7.65%).
Another important characteristic of Hart is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
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!) Hart 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. Hart has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hart than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hart may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Hart doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Hart ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.80% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Hart in 2022 was $23,198, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,792 for a family of four. However, Hart contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hart is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Hart 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 Hart, accounting for 84.46% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hart residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Hart include African, German, English, Scottish, and Polish.
Hart also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 34.75%.
The most common language spoken in Hart is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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.
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 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 60.5% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
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, 63.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 56.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Hart are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 52.6% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 29.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.9%), and 17.6% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 56.1% of households. Some people also speak English (43.2%).
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 Hart, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (1.9%), along with some African ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 32.6% 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 (60.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (71.2%) 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 (21.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.