Anson is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,302 people and just one neighborhood, Anson is the 605th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Anson is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Anson is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Anson who work in healthcare (12.76%), maintenance occupations (10.13%), and management occupations (9.74%).
It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Anson 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. Anson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Anson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Anson may be for you.
As is often the case in a small city, Anson doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Anson are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.37% of adults in Anson have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Anson in 2022 was $25,701, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,804 for a family of four. However, Anson contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Anson is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Anson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Anson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Anson also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.92% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Anson include German, English, Scottish, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Anson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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 Anson, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 10.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
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 Anson are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 72.9% of U.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, 35.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (25.0%), and 16.6% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.2%).
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 Anson, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (29.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.2%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (4.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.6% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (12.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.