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Morgan's Point Resort, TX

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Overview


Morgan's Point Resort is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,772 people and just one neighborhood, Morgan's Point Resort is the 402nd largest community in Texas. Morgan's Point Resort has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Morgan's Point Resort, where the median household income is $77,000.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, Morgan's Point Resort isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Morgan's Point Resort are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morgan's Point Resort is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morgan's Point Resort who work in office and administrative support (13.39%), teaching (10.43%), and healthcare (10.26%).

A relatively large number of people in Morgan's Point Resort telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.35% 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

Because of many things, Morgan's Point Resort is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Morgan's Point Resort really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Morgan's Point Resort perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Morgan's Point Resort is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Morgan's Point Resort, the average commute to work is 30.65 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Morgan's Point Resort is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Morgan's Point Resort is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 41.82% of adults in Morgan's Point Resort have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Morgan's Point Resort in 2022 was $37,434, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,736 for a family of four. However, Morgan's Point Resort contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Morgan's Point Resort is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Morgan's Point Resort home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morgan's Point Resort residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Morgan's Point Resort also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Morgan's Point Resort include German, English, Italian, Irish, and Czech.

The most common language spoken in Morgan's Point Resort is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and West Germanic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 98.2% of neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Morgan's Point Resort is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 87.9% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Brazilian ancestry.

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 Morgan's Point Resort are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 59.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 13.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.0% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. 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 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.3%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (5.7%).

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 Morgan's Point Resort, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report English roots (15.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.5%), among others.

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (71.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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