Schulenburg is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,718 people and just one neighborhood, Schulenburg is the 561st largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Schulenburg is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 36.50% of the Schulenburg workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Schulenburg is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Schulenburg who work in food service (10.65%), office and administrative support (10.46%), and sales jobs (9.22%).
A relatively large number of people in Schulenburg telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.65% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One of the benefits of Schulenburg is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.76 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small city, Schulenburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Schulenburg are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.90% of adults in Schulenburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Schulenburg in 2022 was $24,189, 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 $96,756 for a family of four. However, Schulenburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Schulenburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Schulenburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Schulenburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Schulenburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.04% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Schulenburg include German, Czech, Irish, English, and Italian.
In addition, Schulenburg has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.90%).
The most common language spoken in Schulenburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
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How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Schulenburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.2% 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, 34.9% 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 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.8%), and 14.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 79.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Schulenburg, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (27.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (26.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (2.6%), among others. In addition, 11.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (54.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.6%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.