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Nixon, TX

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Overview


Nixon is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,378 people and just one neighborhood, Nixon is the 602nd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Nixon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 71.51% of Nixon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Nixon is a city of production and manufacturing workers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nixon who work in office and administrative support (9.35%), sales jobs (5.18%), and food service (4.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Nixon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

Nixon ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.27% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Nixon in 2022 was $22,781, 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 $91,124 for a family of four. However, Nixon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Nixon is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nixon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Nixon, accounting for 86.23% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Nixon residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Nixon include Scottish, German, Irish, Polish, and English.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Nixon's cultural character, accounting for 23.53% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Nixon is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.

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.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.3% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Nixon are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% 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 72.9% 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, 59.2% 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 18.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (12.7%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 52.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (47.5%).

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 Nixon, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report English roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.0%), among others. In addition, 18.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (35.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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