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McDade, TX

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Overview


McDade is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 720 people and just one neighborhood, McDade is the 891st largest community in Texas.

McDade real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although McDade house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

McDade is a blue-collar town, with 41.54% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, McDade is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in McDade who work in sales jobs (16.93%), office and administrative support (13.54%), and personal care services (7.22%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) McDade 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. McDade has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in McDade than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, McDade may be for you.

One downside of living in McDade is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In McDade, the average commute to work is 40.26 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The population of McDade has a very low overall level of education: only 9.95% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in McDade in 2022 was $19,805, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,220 for a family of four. However, McDade contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

McDade is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call McDade 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 McDade, accounting for 55.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of McDade residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in McDade include German, English, Irish, Norwegian, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in McDade is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.6% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Occupations

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 95.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 McDade are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 23.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.3% 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, 27.9% 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 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.1%), and 21.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 McDade, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (23.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (20.7%), and residents who report English roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.4%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 12.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (35.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (11.7%) . 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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