About Yorktown

Yorktown is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,975 people and just one neighborhood, Yorktown is the 394th largest community in Texas.

Yorktown is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yorktown is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Yorktown who work in office and administrative support jobs (11.84%), sales jobs (8.60%), and building maintenance and grounds keeping (7.84%).

Another important characteristic of Yorktown is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

In Yorktown, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.20 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Yorktown is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Yorktown 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. 97.13% 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 town, Yorktown doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Yorktown Information and Demographics

The citizens of Yorktown are slightly less educated than the national average of 14.96% for the average city or town: 12.03% of adults in Yorktown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Yorktown in 2000 was $15,898, 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 $63,592 for a family of four.

Yorktown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Yorktown home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Yorktown is White, followed by African-American. Yorktown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.51% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Yorktown include German, Polish, Irish, and English.

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