La Villa is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,075 people and just one neighborhood, La Villa is the 539th largest community in Texas.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, La Villa is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Villa is a city of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Villa who work in office and administrative support (10.84%), sales jobs (10.84%), and healthcare (7.53%).
The population of La Villa has a very low overall level of education: only 6.17% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in La Villa in 2022 was $14,931, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,724 for a family of four. However, La Villa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Villa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Villa 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 La Villa, accounting for 98.94% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of La Villa residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in La Villa include Jamaican, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
In addition, La Villa has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.21%).
The most common language spoken in La Villa is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in La Villa, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Of particular note, 16.0% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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, 89.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 86.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in La Villa are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.4% 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, 26.4% 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 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.9%), and 18.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 86.9% of households. Some people also speak English (12.0%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in La Villa, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (89.5%). There are also a number of people of French ancestry (2.2%). In addition, 29.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.2%) 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 (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.