Converse, Texas is the city that I put down when the “where do you live?” question pops up on the websites I purchase my miscellaneous items from. It’s a place I only refer to as home when my address is needed for important matters such as: school, mail, purchases, but if not, San Antonio is my home forever and always. However, if we need to get technical, I live on the outskirts of San Antonio in a small city named Converse. I moved to Converse when I was 14, but because our house was on the border of San Antonio and Converse my family still kept their jobs, schooling and shopping done where we always have. Though I have spent most of my time in San Antonio, I felt I knew Converse adequately by observing my neighborhood and few stores we did
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5- Year Estimates, of all people, 9.1% live below the poverty line in Converse, and 7.3% of families do. These percentages were higher than I expected, but in the range I assumed they would be because of perception I had of Converse being a middle class, family-oriented area. However, compared to the state at large Converse holds a lower percentage in both categories with Texas having 13% of families in poverty and 16.7% of all people living under the poverty line. A higher percentage than the United States median of 11% and 15.1% for each category respectively. With these statistics I was able to see that my city, as perceived already, was more affiliated with people not living in poverty, however, I never truly understood why. I know the cost of living in the area I live in is high and my friends and peers referred to the area as the “bougie side” which I am sure referred to the economic class that resided in my area, but was it truly a middle-class space and what made them middle class: income, education, work? Did the residents need services from the government as much as other areas, even though they were named “the bougie side”? I can answer some of these questions with the help of the statistics provided by the …show more content…
The third highest range accumulated income in families is $75,000-$99,000 with 16.6%, which means 62.9% of the city's families living in Converse are low medium class to high middle class. Though we don’t have the same information on individuals instead of just families because of Census inability to have the answer on small towns, we can still infer that the income of individuals would be around middle class as well. Compared to Texas’s range of income, 44.3% of families are in the middle class, and in the US only 43.5% are middle class, therefore it shows the appeal of the area for people of a certain economic class. Could that be the reason of low poverty, did the area only attract people of higher
5- Year Estimates, of all people, 9.1% live below the poverty line in Converse, and 7.3% of families do. These percentages were higher than I expected, but in the range I assumed they would be because of perception I had of Converse being a middle class, family-oriented area. However, compared to the state at large Converse holds a lower percentage in both categories with Texas having 13% of families in poverty and 16.7% of all people living under the poverty line. A higher percentage than the United States median of 11% and 15.1% for each category respectively. With these statistics I was able to see that my city, as perceived already, was more affiliated with people not living in poverty, however, I never truly understood why. I know the cost of living in the area I live in is high and my friends and peers referred to the area as the “bougie side” which I am sure referred to the economic class that resided in my area, but was it truly a middle-class space and what made them middle class: income, education, work? Did the residents need services from the government as much as other areas, even though they were named “the bougie side”? I can answer some of these questions with the help of the statistics provided by the …show more content…
The third highest range accumulated income in families is $75,000-$99,000 with 16.6%, which means 62.9% of the city's families living in Converse are low medium class to high middle class. Though we don’t have the same information on individuals instead of just families because of Census inability to have the answer on small towns, we can still infer that the income of individuals would be around middle class as well. Compared to Texas’s range of income, 44.3% of families are in the middle class, and in the US only 43.5% are middle class, therefore it shows the appeal of the area for people of a certain economic class. Could that be the reason of low poverty, did the area only attract people of higher