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Ringgold, TX

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Overview


Ringgold is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 146 people and just one neighborhood, Ringgold is the 1033rd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Ringgold is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.91% of the Ringgold workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Ringgold is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Ringgold who work in teaching (20.45%), sales jobs (13.64%), and office and administrative support (9.09%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.50% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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, Ringgold’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Ringgold 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. Ringgold has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Ringgold than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Ringgold may be for you.

One downside of living in Ringgold is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Ringgold, the average commute to work is 36.29 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The percentage of people in Ringgold who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.36% of adults in Ringgold have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Ringgold in 2022 was $22,286, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $89,144 for a family of four. However, Ringgold contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Ringgold home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Ringgold residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Ringgold include English, Scots-Irish, German, Polish, and Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Ringgold, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.2%, which is higher than 95.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 Ringgold are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.8% 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, 28.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.4%), and 13.5% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (2.6%).

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 Ringgold, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (15.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (74.2%) 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 (12.6%) and 6.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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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