Lancaster is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 25,893 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Lancaster is the 99th largest community in Texas.

Lancaster is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lancaster is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lancaster who work in office and administrative support jobs (24.62%), sales jobs (8.18%), and teaching (7.52%).

One downside of living in Lancaster is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lancaster, the average commute to work is 30.52 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Residents of Lancaster by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 96.9% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While Lancaster may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Lancaster is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Lancaster Information and Demographics

The education level of Lancaster citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 18.91% of adults in Lancaster have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Lancaster in 2000 was $18,731, which is upper middle income relative to Texas, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $74,924 for a family of four.

Lancaster is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lancaster home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Lancaster is African-American, followed by White. Lancaster also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.19% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Lancaster include German, English, and Irish.

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