Alba is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 499 people and two associated neighborhoods, Alba is the 948th largest community in Texas.

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.05% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Alba has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Alba has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alba than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alba may be for you.

One downside of living in Alba, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.80 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small town, Alba does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In Alba, just 12.01% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Alba in 2022 was $28,310, 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 $113,240 for a family of four. However, Alba contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Alba is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alba home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alba residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alba include German, Irish, English, Scottish, and Polish.

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