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China Spring, TX

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Overview


China Spring is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,436 people and just one neighborhood, China Spring is the 739th largest community in Texas.

China Spring real estate is some of the most expensive in Texas, although China Spring house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, China Spring isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in China Spring are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, China Spring is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in China Spring who work in office and administrative support (20.37%), sales jobs (14.20%), and food service (13.12%).

A relatively large number of people in China Spring telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.11% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, China Spring has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes China Spring a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Being a small town, China Spring does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, China Spring ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 1.86% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in China Spring in 2022 was $27,982, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,928 for a family of four. However, China Spring contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

China Spring is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call China Spring home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of China Spring residents report their race to be White. China Spring also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in China Spring include English, Irish, German, European, and French.

The most common language spoken in China Spring 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 China Spring, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, is among the best neighborhoods for families in Texas. In fact, this neighborhood is more family-friendly than 97.3% of neighborhoods in the entire state of Texas. Its combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes gives this area the look and feel of a "Leave It to Beaver" episode. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a strong sense of community. In addition, the high number of college-educated parents influences the academic success of the local schools. Overall, you will find all of the amenities a family needs to thrive in the neighborhood.

Real Estate

Owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 95.4% of neighborhoods in America.

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 China Spring are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 81.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 1.0% 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 78.9% 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, 37.1% 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 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.1%), and 16.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 90.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

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 China Spring, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (20.5%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (51.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (84.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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