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Alba, TX
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Living in Alba



Alba is a tiny town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 493 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.

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.

In Alba, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.59 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

The citizens of Alba are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.79% of adults in Alba have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Alba in 2018 was $28,675, 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 $114,700 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 Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Alba include English, Irish, German, Scots-Irish, and European.

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


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