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Robert Lee is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,042 people and just one neighborhood, Robert Lee is the 817th largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
Robert Lee is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Robert Lee is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Robert Lee who work in office and administrative support (15.37%), sales jobs (11.69%), and healthcare suport services (11.47%).
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!) Robert Lee 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. Robert Lee has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Robert Lee than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Robert Lee may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Robert Lee spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 19.16 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the city are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small city, Robert Lee doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The rate of college-level education in Robert Lee is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.71% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Robert Lee in 2022 was $24,208, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,832 for a family of four. However, Robert Lee contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Robert Lee is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Robert Lee home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Robert Lee residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Robert Lee also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.57% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Robert Lee include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Robert Lee is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Real Estate
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish 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 Robert Lee are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% 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, 32.6% 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 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 20.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 89.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.7%).
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 Robert Lee, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (19.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.2%), and residents who report German roots (10.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
Getting to Work
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (88.1%) 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 (5.9%) . 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.
