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Skidmore, TX

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Overview


Skidmore is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 863 people and just one neighborhood, Skidmore is the 853rd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Skidmore is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 87.77% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Skidmore is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Skidmore who work in teaching (16.84%), maintenance occupations (14.54%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (14.01%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Skidmore 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. Skidmore has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Skidmore than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Skidmore may be for you.

Demographics

The population of Skidmore has a very low overall level of education: only 8.76% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Skidmore in 2022 was $35,594, which is upper middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $142,376 for a family of four. However, Skidmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Skidmore is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Skidmore 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 Skidmore, accounting for 82.71% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Skidmore residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Skidmore include German, English, French, Irish, and Czech.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Skidmore, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

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 96.1% of America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.8% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Skidmore is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in TX, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in Texas. If you are considering retiring to Texas, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

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, 54.9% 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 Skidmore are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 4.0% 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 67.8% of America'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, 29.9% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 26.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (24.4%), and 19.3% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

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 61.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Skidmore, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (54.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (19.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (1.7%), among others.

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 (32.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (76.8%) 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 (17.3%) . 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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