La Porte is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 31,899 people and 11 constituent neighborhoods, La Porte is the 79th largest community in Texas.

La Porte is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, La Porte is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in La Porte who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.25%), sales jobs (9.11%), and management occupations (6.85%).

La Porte is a very car-oriented city: 97% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. In fact, the general consensus among people in La Porte is that if you need to get anywhere, you're going to have to drive. The landscape is very car-oriented, and features shopping centers, strip malls, parking lots, and wide streets. Pedestrians are discouraged by the fact that sidewalks are not always present, which makes attempts at walking downright daunting in certain parts of town.

La Porte is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

La Porte Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of La Porte rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.16% of adults 25 and older in La Porte have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 14.96% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in La Porte in 2000 was $21,178, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,712 for a family of four.

La Porte is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Porte home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in La Porte is White, followed by African-American. La Porte also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.40% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in La Porte include German, English, Irish, and French.

The most common language spoken in La Porte is English. Some people also speak Spanish.