La Grange is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,477 people and three constituent neighborhoods, La Grange is the 368th largest community in Texas.

La Grange is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, La Grange is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Grange who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.28%), food service (9.24%), and sales jobs (7.91%).

La Grange is very much a car-oriented city. This is because the population of La Grange isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.54% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small city, La Grange doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

La Grange Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in La Grange with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 14.96% for all communities. 12.82% of adults in La Grange have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Grange in 2000 was $15,288, which is middle income relative to Texas, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $61,152 for a family of four.

La Grange is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Grange home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in La Grange is White, followed by African-American. La Grange also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.97% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in La Grange include German, Czech, English, and Irish.

The most common language spoken in La Grange is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German.