Millsap is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 404 people and just one neighborhood, Millsap is the 969th largest community in Texas.
Millsap real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although Millsap house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some towns, Millsap isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Millsap are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Millsap is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Millsap who work in office and administrative support (11.73%), management occupations (10.61%), and sales jobs (9.50%).
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!) Millsap 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. Millsap has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Millsap than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Millsap may be for you.
As is often the case in a small town, Millsap doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Millsap with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.40% of adults in Millsap have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Millsap in 2022 was $29,062, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,248 for a family of four. However, Millsap contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Millsap is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Millsap home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Millsap residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Millsap also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.56% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Millsap include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Millsap is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 10.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of Texas. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 1.9% have Danish 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 Millsap are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 83.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 56.3% of America'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, 41.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 25.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (23.8%), and 9.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.2%).
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 Millsap, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.4%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.
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 (32.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.5%) 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 (6.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.