Fort Bend County Demographics - Diane Moser Properties

DEMOGRAPHICS

"What's really important here is to make the diversity of Fort Bend a strength rather than a weakness, to improve and enhance existing relationships. As the population grows, the ratios will stay the same, and the diversity continues, just on a larger scale. It doesn't go away. The Fort Bend Chamber is doing a good job in initiating an effort of making diversity a strength with a program like The Fort Bend Diversity in Action. It's a nine-month class that is offered to about 35 community and business leaders, from all walks of life. That's a move in the right direction."

-- Epi Salazar

Fort Bend Chamber of Commerce

Infrastructure Division Vice Chairman

SES Horizons Consulting Engineers

aster-planned communities, offering a high standard for family living, education and safety, has attracted citizens with impressive demographic profiles.

Fort Bend County citizens over age 25 have the highest levels of educational attainment in the Houston area offering relocating companies an excellent diverse mix of professional, technical, skilled and unskilled labor.

Fort Bend leads the Houston region (in every ethnic group) in household income. It also ranks eighth in the nation for percentage of traditional families (married with children).

Fort Bend County has a crime rate that is 27% less than national average and 50% less than the state average, while enjoying the closest suburban proximity to Houston's cultural arts and other attractions.

Education

Fort Bend County citizens over the age of 25 have the highest levels of educational attainment in the Houston region. Its residents also have the:

highest percentage of citizens with graduate degrees;
highest percentage of citizens with bachelor degrees;
highest percentage of citizens with some college education;
lowest percentage of high school dropouts.

Ethnic Diversity

Fort Bend County is the ninth most ethnically diverse county in the United States:

Asian 6%
Hispanic 19%
Black 21%
Anglo/Other 54%

* Source: 1990 Census

Household Composition

Fort Bend County has the highest percentage of traditional families (married with children) in the Houston region and the eighth highest percentage of traditional families in the United States.

Total population is 290,841; households 91,395; families 76,097.*
74% of the population lives in family households;
45% of the families are married with children compared to the national average of 26%.

* Source: Urban Decision Systems, 1995.

Household Income

Fort Bend leads the Houston region in household income. Every ethnic group in Fort Bend County leads its counterpart throughout the Houston region in average household income.

The average household income in Fort Bend County is $55,896.

Crime Rate

Fort Bend County has a crime rate that is 27% less than the national average and 50% less than the state average.

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