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Pettus - Tuleta, TX

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Overview


Pettus - Tuleta is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,681 people and just one neighborhood, Pettus - Tuleta is the 695th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pettus - Tuleta is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pettus - Tuleta is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pettus - Tuleta who work in office and administrative support (15.79%), maintenance occupations (11.15%), and management occupations (10.99%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.35% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

The town 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, Pettus - Tuleta has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pettus - Tuleta a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Pettus - Tuleta is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

In Pettus - Tuleta, just 11.65% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Pettus - Tuleta in 2022 was $32,281, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $129,124 for a family of four. However, Pettus - Tuleta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pettus - Tuleta is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pettus - Tuleta 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 Pettus - Tuleta, accounting for 52.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Pettus - Tuleta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pettus - Tuleta include German, Irish, English, Czech, and European.

The most common language spoken in Pettus - Tuleta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.

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.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Pettus - Tuleta 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 89.1% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

The Neighbors

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 Pettus - Tuleta are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.7% of America'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, 33.1% 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 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.4%), and 16.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (25.2%).

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 Pettus - Tuleta, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (49.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (5.7%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 (41.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (5.1%) . 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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