Big Spring, TX
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None of the households in Big Spring, TX reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
The largest universities in Big Spring, TX are Howard College (225520) (625 degrees awarded in 2022) and Southwest College for the Deaf (13 degrees).
The economy of Big Spring, TX employs N/A people. The largest industries in Big Spring, TX are Health Care & Social Assistance (1,818 people), Retail Trade (1,081 people), and Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction (998 people), and the highest paying industries are Transportation & Warehousing ($103,259), Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction ($78,941), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($78,801).
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Big Spring, TX, are Management Occupations (966 people), Office & Administrative Support Occupations (921 people), and Production Occupations (776 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Big Spring, TX.
This chart shows weekly unemployment insurance claims in Texas (not-seasonally adjusted) compared with the four states with the most similar impact.
The most recent data point uses Advance State Claims data, which can be revised in subsequent weeks.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Big Spring, TX, are Health Care & Social Assistance (1,818 people), Retail Trade (1,081 people), and Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction (998 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Big Spring, TX, though some of these residents may live in Big Spring, TX and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2023 are Finance & Insurance, & Real Estate & Rental & Leasing ($133,357), Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($83,682), and Other Services Except Public Administration ($81,552).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2023 are Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($66,463), Construction ($63,229), and Public Administration ($60,787).
As of February 2023, there are 13.8M people employed in Texas. This represents a 4.59% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.
Right after the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, during April 2020, a general dip can be seen across industry sectors, resulting in an overall decline in employment by 9.63%.
The following chart shows monthly employment numbers for each industry sector in Texas.
In the 2024 presidential election, the popular vote in Texas went to Donald J. Trump with 56.1% of the vote. The runner-up was Kamala Harris (42.5%), followed by Jill Stein (0.726%).
John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are the senators currently representing the state of Texas. In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
Texas is currently represented by 38 members in the U.S. house, and members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms.
In the 2024 presidential election, the popular vote in Texas went to Donald J. Trump with 56.1% of the vote. The runner-up was Kamala Harris (42.5%), followed by Jill Stein (0.726%).
The following chart shows the popular vote results in Texas for each registered party from 1976 to 2024.
John Cornyn and Ted Cruz are the senators currently representing Texas.
In the United States, senators are elected to 6-year terms with the terms for individual senators staggered.
The following chart shows elected senators in Texas over time, excluding special elections, colored by their political party.
Texas is currently represented by 38 members in the U.S. house.
Members of the House of Representives are elected to 2-year terms, and the following chart shows the how the members for Texas have changed over time starting in 2008.
In 2022, universities in Big Spring, TX awarded 638 degrees. The student population of Big Spring, TX in N/A is skewed towards N/A, with N/A male students and N/A female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Big Spring, TX are Hispanic or Latino (315 and 50.4%), followed by White (258 and 41.3%), Two or More Races (22 and 3.52%), and Black or African American (21 and 3.36%).
The largest universities in Big Spring, TX by number of degrees awarded are Howard College (225520) (625 and 98%) and Southwest College for the Deaf (13 and 2.04%).
In 2022, the most common concentation for N/A recipients in Big Spring, TX was General Studies with 110 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a N/A from schools in Big Spring, TX according to their major.
In 2022, the institution with the largest number of graduating students was Howard College (225520) with 625 degrees awarded.
In 2022, 178 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Big Spring, TX, which is 0.387 times less than the 460 female students who received degrees in the same year.
In 2022 the most common race/ethnicity group awarded degrees at institutions was Hispanic or Latino students. These 315 degrees mean that there were 1.22 times more degrees awarded to Hispanic or Latino students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, White, with 258 degrees awarded.
The graph shows the evolution of awarded degrees by degrees. Under the paragraphs, the average number of awarded degrees by university in each degree is shown.
In 2022, 1.59% of men over 25 years of age had not completed any academic degree (no schooling), while 1.53% of women were in the same situation.
This visualization shows the gender distribution of the population according to the academic level reached.
The most common educational levels obtained by the working population in 2022 were High School or Equivalent (5.7M), Some college (4.97M), and Bachelors Degree (4.2M).
This visualization illustrates the percentage distribution of the population according to the highest educational level reached. You can filter the data by race by using the selector above.
The following map shows all of the places in Big Spring, TX colored by their Median Household Income (N/A).
The following chart displays the households in Big Spring, TX distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the N/A range.
In 2022, the income inequality in Texas was 0.476 according to the GINI calculation of the wage distribution. Income inequality had a 0.0231% decline from 2021 to 2022, which means that wage distribution grew somewhat more even. The GINI for Texas was lower than than the national average of 1. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Texas in comparison to the national average.
This chart shows the number of workers in Texas across various wage buckets compared to the national average.
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The following chart shows the number of households using each mode of transportation over time, using a logarithmic scale on the y-axis to help better show variations in the smaller means of commuting.
Using averages, employees in Big Spring, TX have a N/A commute time (N/A minutes) than the normal US worker (N/A minutes). Additionally, 0.896% of the workforce in Big Spring, TX have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Big Spring, TX compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Big Spring, TX distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Big Spring, TX have N/A.
N/A% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Big Spring, TX (N/A out of N/A people) live below the poverty line, a number that is approximately the same as the national average of N/A%. The largest demographic living in poverty are N/A N/A, followed by N/A N/A and then N/A N/A.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Big Spring, TX is White, followed by Hispanic and Two Or More.
The Census Bureau uses a set of money income thresholds that vary by family size and composition to determine who classifies as impoverished. If a family's total income is less than the family's threshold than that family and every individual in it is considered to be living in poverty.
N/A% of the population of Big Spring, TX has health coverage, with N/A% on employee plans, N/A% on Medicaid, N/A% on Medicare, N/A% on non-group plans, and N/A% on military or VA plans.
In N/A, insured persons according to age ranges were distributed in .
By gender, of the total number of insured persons, N/A were men and N/A were women.
The following chart shows the number of people with health coverage by gender.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Big Spring, TX changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
