Markham - Blessing is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,317 people and just one neighborhood, Markham - Blessing is the 435th largest community in Texas.
When you are in Markham - Blessing, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.91% of Markham - Blessing’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Markham - Blessing is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Markham - Blessing who work in food service (10.04%), office and administrative support (8.94%), and management occupations (7.98%).
As is often the case in a small town, Markham - Blessing doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Markham - Blessing are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.01% of adults in Markham - Blessing have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Markham - Blessing in 2022 was $24,867, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $99,468 for a family of four. However, Markham - Blessing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Markham - Blessing is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Markham - Blessing home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Markham - Blessing residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Markham - Blessing also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.75% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Markham - Blessing include German, Czech, Irish, English, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Markham - Blessing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.1% of American neighborhoods.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.2% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish ancestry.
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 Markham - Blessing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 10.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 50.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 44.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.5%), and 8.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.5%).
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 Markham - Blessing, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (26.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (24.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.2%), among others.
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 (27.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (85.4%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.