Ore City is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,199 people and just one neighborhood, Ore City is the 804th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ore City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.88% of the Ore City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ore City is a city of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ore City who work in office and administrative support (8.96%), maintenance occupations (8.67%), and teaching (7.51%).
Also of interest is that Ore City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Ore City has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Ore City a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Ore City, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 31.38 minutes every day commuting to work.
Being a small city, Ore City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Ore City ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.83% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Ore City in 2022 was $27,081, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,324 for a family of four. However, Ore City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Ore City is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ore City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ore City residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Ore City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.68% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Ore City include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Ore City is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lebanese and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Lebanese ancestry and 4.0% have Arab ancestry.
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 Ore City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.6% 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, 37.9% 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 31.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.8%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.7%).
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 Ore City, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (12.4%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.5%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (4.0%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.7%) 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 (8.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.