Blum is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 397 people and just one neighborhood, Blum is the 968th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Blum is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 71.13% of the Blum workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Blum is a town of transportation and shipping workers, production and manufacturing workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Blum who work in sales jobs (11.30%), office and administrative support (5.02%), and healthcare suport services (4.60%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Blum has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Blum a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In Blum, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.70 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Blum does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Blum ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.28% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Blum in 2022 was $21,048, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,192 for a family of four. However, Blum contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blum is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blum home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blum residents report their race to be White. Blum also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.89% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blum include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Blum 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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 92.5% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
If you are planning to retire in Texas, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Texas, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.2% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
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 Blum are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.2% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.9%), and 9.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.4%).
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 Blum, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.6%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 (35.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (8.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.