About Pflugerville

Pflugerville is a medium-sized town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 34,618 people and just one neighborhood, Pflugerville is the 73rd largest community in Texas.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pflugerville is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pflugerville is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pflugerville who work in office and administrative support jobs (19.08%), sales jobs (10.16%), and management occupations (9.34%).

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

Because of many things, Pflugerville is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Pflugerville really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Pflugerville perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One notable thing about Pflugerville is that if you need to go anywhere, you're going to have to drive. This is because Pflugerville is primarily built for cars, and if you drive around you will notice that there are lots of shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets. Commuting to work is done by car: 98.2% of people use private automobiles to get to and from work. Sidewalks? Not so much. In fact, trying to walk in certain parts of town may be a dangerous enterprise.

The town of Pflugerville is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Pflugerville Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Pflugerville citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.56% of adults in Pflugerville have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Pflugerville in 2000 was $23,391, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $93,564 for a family of four. However, Pflugerville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pflugerville is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pflugerville home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pflugerville is White, followed by African-American. Pflugerville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.14% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Pflugerville include German, English, and Irish.

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