De Berry is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,295 people and just one neighborhood, De Berry is the 430th largest community in Texas.
De Berry is a blue-collar town, with 36.06% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, De Berry is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in De Berry who work in office and administrative support (15.45%), teaching (11.20%), and sales jobs (10.84%).
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, De Berry has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes De Berry a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
In De Berry, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.12 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, De Berry doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of De Berry rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.04% of adults 25 and older in De Berry have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in De Berry in 2022 was $33,277, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $133,108 for a family of four. However, De Berry contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
De Berry is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call De Berry home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of De Berry residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in De Berry include German, English, Irish, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in De Berry is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 96.0% of America.
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 De Berry are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.6% 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, 35.9% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.4%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 96.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in De Berry, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (10.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.9%), and some of the residents are also of French ancestry (4.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (7.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.