About Richland Hills

Richland Hills is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 8,009 people and just one neighborhood, Richland Hills is the 251st largest community in Texas.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Richland Hills is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Richland Hills is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Richland Hills who work in office and administrative support jobs (21.32%), sales jobs (15.09%), and management occupations (7.39%).

Also of interest is that Richland Hills has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Richland Hills is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Richland Hills, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.78% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small city, Richland Hills does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Richland Hills Information and Demographics

The education level of Richland Hills citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 16.92% of adults in Richland Hills have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Richland Hills in 2000 was $20,247, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,988 for a family of four.

The people who call Richland Hills home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Richland Hills is White, followed by African-American. Richland Hills also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.64% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Richland Hills include German, English, Irish, and Scotch-Irish.

The most common language spoken in Richland Hills is English. Some people also speak Spanish.