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    Midway, TX

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    Overview


    Midway is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 186 people and just one neighborhood, Midway is the 1024th largest community in Texas.

    Occupations and Workforce

    When you are in Midway, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.79% of Midway’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Midway is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Midway who work in teaching (16.38%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.34%), and community and social services (7.76%).

    A relatively large number of people in Midway telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.07% 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.

    Setting & Lifestyle

    Overall, Midway’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

    One downside of living in Midway, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 43.60 minutes every day commuting to work.

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

    Demographics

    The population of Midway is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 39.31% of adults in Midway have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

    The per capita income in Midway in 2022 was $41,949, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $167,796 for a family of four. However, Midway contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

    Midway is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Midway home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Midway residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Midway also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.23% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Midway include Hungarian, Irish, French, English, and German.

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

    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.

    Occupations

    The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 28.6% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

    Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (62.7%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

    Length of Commute

    Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 23.5% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of all neighborhoods in America.

    People

    An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.8% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.

    In addition, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 85.4% of the neighborhoods in TX. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.

    Modes of Transportation

    Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.2%) than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

    Also, if you like to ride the train to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 9.4% of the neighborhood's commuters ride the train to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 95.5% of America'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 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.4% of America.

    Migration / Stability

    Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. In the neighborhood, a greater proportion of the residents living here today did not live here five years ago than is found in 95.3% of U.S. Neighborhoods. This neighborhood, more than almost any other in America, has new residents from other areas.

    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 Midway are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 34.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.1% 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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (27.9%), and 20.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

    Languages

    The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (21.2%).

    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 Midway, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report German roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.0%), 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 longer than one hour commuting one-way to work (23.5% of working residents), one of the longer commutes in America, which is a potential downside for residents of this neighborhood.

    Here most residents (45.6%) 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 (23.2%) and 9.4% of residents also take the train for their daily commute. 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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