About Olmos Park

Olmos Park is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,463 people and just one neighborhood, Olmos Park is the 515th largest community in Texas. Olmos Park has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.

Olmos Park is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 95.74% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Olmos Park is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Olmos Park who work in sales jobs (15.98%), management occupations (13.73%), and legal occupations (11.73%).

Also of interest is that Olmos Park has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

For a small city, there is also a high proportion of single, often educated, people living in Olmos Park. This is not typical for most smaller communities in America, and adds a feeling of vibrancy to Olmos Park.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Olmos Park is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Olmos Park is a small city, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Olmos Park, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.62% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Olmos Park Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Olmos Park is a pretty powerful place. 68.96% of the adults in Olmos Park have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Olmos Park in 2000 was $65,697, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $262,788 for a family of four. However, Olmos Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Olmos Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Olmos Park is White, followed by African-American. Olmos Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.14% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Olmos Park include German, English, Irish, French, Scottish, and Scotch-Irish.

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