Daingerfield is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,518 people and just one neighborhood, Daingerfield is the 573rd largest community in Texas.
Daingerfield is a blue-collar town, with 36.67% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Daingerfield is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Daingerfield who work in office and administrative support (11.29%), maintenance occupations (11.29%), and teaching (9.14%).
Being a small city, Daingerfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Daingerfield rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.36% of adults 25 and older in Daingerfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Daingerfield in 2022 was $21,374, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,496 for a family of four. However, Daingerfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Daingerfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Daingerfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Daingerfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Daingerfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.07% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Daingerfield include English, Irish, German, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Daingerfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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 Daingerfield, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.8%) living in the neighborhood.
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 Daingerfield are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 35.9% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (20.2%), and 17.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.1%).
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 Daingerfield, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.1%).
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 (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (14.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.