La Vista is a medium-sized city located in the state of Nebraska. With a population of 16,648 people and four constituent neighborhoods, La Vista is the 13th largest community in Nebraska.
La Vista real estate is some of the most expensive in Nebraska, although La Vista house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, La Vista is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Vista is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Vista who work in office and administrative support (13.01%), sales jobs (10.48%), and business and financial occupations (6.20%).
Also of interest is that La Vista has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
In terms of college education, La Vista is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.19% of adults in La Vista have a college degree.
The per capita income in La Vista in 2018 was $33,859, which is wealthy relative to Nebraska, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $135,436 for a family of four. However, La Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Vista is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. La Vista also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Vista include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in La Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.