Lackland Air Force Base is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 9,467 people and just one neighborhood, Lackland Air Force Base is the 261st largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Lackland Air Force Base was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Lackland Air Force Base economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Lackland Air Force Base, where the median household income is $73,646.00.
60.94% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Lackland Air Force Base. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Accommodation and Retail industries respectively employ 26.67% and 25.65% of the civilian workforce.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 39.55% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Lackland Air Force Base spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 13.40 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
In Lackland Air Force Base, a lot of people use the bus to get to work every day though Lackland Air Force Base is a relatively small town. Those that ride the bus are primarily traveling out of town to good jobs in other cities.
The citizens of Lackland Air Force Base are among the most well-educated in the nation: 41.10% of adults in Lackland Air Force Base have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Lackland Air Force Base in 2022 was $25,026, 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 $100,104 for a family of four. However, Lackland Air Force Base contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lackland Air Force Base is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lackland Air Force Base home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lackland Air Force Base residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Lackland Air Force Base also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.55% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Lackland Air Force Base include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Lackland Air Force Base is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
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.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 100.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 98.0% of all American neighborhoods.
In addition, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (36.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
Also, a unique way of commuting is simply not to. And in the neighborhood, analysis shows that 38.2% of the residents work from home, avoiding a commute altogether. This may not seem like a large number, but it is a higher proportion of people working from home than is found in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States. One thing NeighborhoodScout's research reveals is that the wealthier and/or more isolated the neighborhood, the greater the proportion of residents who choose to work from home.
Renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 99.5%, which is higher than 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 37.3% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
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. 67.0% 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 98.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. In the neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 99.9% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.
Significantly, 0.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lackland Air Force Base are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 16.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 63.3% of U.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, 58.9% of the working population is employed in the military. 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 42.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.2%), and 23.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.2%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Lackland Air Force Base, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (13.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (7.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.7%), among others.
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 (67.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (36.4%) hop out the door and walk to work to get to work. In addition, quite a number also drive alone in a private automobile to get to work (17.6%) . This is a special neighborhood for the number of people who walk to work. Combining exercise, low cost, and reduced pollution, plus the chance to see your neighbors, walking to work is fairly uncommon in America but likely to increase as people try to reduce their dependence on automobiles, and this neighborhood offers that opportunity today.
