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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Murchison is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 523 people and just one neighborhood, Murchison is the 932nd largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Murchison is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Murchison is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Murchison who work in office and administrative support (13.48%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.64%), and computer science and math (9.22%).
Also of interest is that Murchison has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Murchison 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. Murchison has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Murchison than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Murchison may be for you.
One downside of living in Murchison is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Murchison, the average commute to work is 32.05 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small city, Murchison doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Murchison is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.03% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Murchison in 2022 was $25,187, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,748 for a family of four. However, Murchison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Murchison home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Murchison residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Murchison also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.02% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Murchison include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Murchison is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
People
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.0% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Texas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 8.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 2.4% have Native American 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 Murchison are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.3% 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 66.8% of America'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, 32.5% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.6%), and 19.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.2%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 Murchison, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.3%), and residents who report Scottish roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.2%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.5%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (83.8%) 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 (11.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
