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Rio Bravo, TX

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Overview


Rio Bravo is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,326 people and just one neighborhood, Rio Bravo is the 411th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Rio Bravo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.06% of the Rio Bravo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Rio Bravo is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rio Bravo who work in food service (11.42%), maintenance occupations (10.06%), and healthcare suport services (7.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Rio Bravo’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

One downside of living in Rio Bravo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.98 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

Rio Bravo ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.38% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Rio Bravo in 2022 was $12,467, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $49,868 for a family of four. However, Rio Bravo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Rio Bravo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Rio Bravo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rio Bravo 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 Rio Bravo, accounting for 96.46% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Rio Bravo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Rio Bravo include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.

In addition, Rio Bravo has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (26.17%).

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 4.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.6% of America's neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Most neighborhoods are composed of a mixture of ages of homes, but the stands out as rather unique in having nearly all of its residential real estate built in one time period, namely between 1970 and 1999, generally considered to be established, but not old housing. What you'll sense when you look around or drive the streets of this neighborhood is that many of the residences look the same because of this similarity of age. In fact, 86.0% of the residential real estate here was built in this one time period.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 44.1% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.6% of American neighborhoods.

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, 95.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Rio Bravo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 52.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.7% 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, 44.1% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 11.2% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak English (6.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Rio Bravo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (95.0%). In addition, 26.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (27.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (16.6%) . 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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