Can you point to any noticable differences between the east Houston refinery towns of Baytown & Texas City? In what ways are these two towns different from one another regarding demographics, landscape, climate, economy, population trends, property values, local culture, local reputation, etc., etc?
I plan on doing a sociological study of refinery towns, and I’m narrowing my sample city down to either of these two places. I am especially interested in trying to determine which of these two towns is reputed to have a greater percentage of lower income whites with low levels of educational attainment. I know what the census figures state about both places, but I’d also like to get an idea what most people in the Greater Houston & Galveston areas think about these questions.
Baytown is mostly hispanic with some new residential developments amid the poor residential areas. Texas City is mostly black, with some hispanic and low-income whites and is the smaller of the two. It’s also the least developed and has a higher crime rate, so you might want to focus on Texas City. References : Grew up in Houston and worked in Baytown and Texas City.
baytown would answer the question of lower income whites with lower levels of education. texas city has a larger black population. baytown has a growing hispanic population.
this might be helpful for your summary: in greater houston, the highest concentration of wealth and college degrees is in the "inner loop" neighborhoods between the galleria and downtown — river oaks, twin oaks, midtown, rice village, west university, bellaire. expanding outward, this ratio gradually diminishes as one encounters many highly integrated (in terms of race, religion and education) neighborhoods and communities that are best distinguished on a larger geographic scale through socio-economic factors including household income. baytown and the communities east of houston, as a group, are far less prosperous and the citizens considerably less educated than those inside the loop, or even those in suburban aggregations north, west and southwest of houston. References :
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Can you point to any noticable differences between the east Houston refinery towns of Baytown & Texas City?
In what ways are these two towns different from one another regarding demographics, landscape, climate, economy, population trends, property values, local culture, local reputation, etc., etc?
I plan on doing a sociological study of refinery towns, and I’m narrowing my sample city down to either of these two places. I am especially interested in trying to determine which of these two towns is reputed to have a greater percentage of lower income whites with low levels of educational attainment. I know what the census figures state about both places, but I’d also like to get an idea what most people in the Greater Houston & Galveston areas think about these questions.
Baytown is mostly hispanic with some new residential developments amid the poor residential areas. Texas City is mostly black, with some hispanic and low-income whites and is the smaller of the two. It’s also the least developed and has a higher crime rate, so you might want to focus on Texas City.
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Grew up in Houston and worked in Baytown and Texas City.
Hey, don’t forget Deer Park, which is mostly white and middle class.
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baytown would answer the question of lower income whites with lower levels of education. texas city has a larger black population. baytown has a growing hispanic population.
this might be helpful for your summary: in greater houston, the highest concentration of wealth and college degrees is in the "inner loop" neighborhoods between the galleria and downtown — river oaks, twin oaks, midtown, rice village, west university, bellaire. expanding outward, this ratio gradually diminishes as one encounters many highly integrated (in terms of race, religion and education) neighborhoods and communities that are best distinguished on a larger geographic scale through socio-economic factors including household income. baytown and the communities east of houston, as a group, are far less prosperous and the citizens considerably less educated than those inside the loop, or even those in suburban aggregations north, west and southwest of houston.
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