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El Cenizo is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,451 people and just one neighborhood, El Cenizo is the 570th largest community in Texas.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in El Cenizo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.32% of El Cenizo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, El Cenizo is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Cenizo who work in office and administrative support (14.95%), maintenance occupations (10.95%), and healthcare suport services (8.68%).
Setting & Lifestyle
In El Cenizo, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.64 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small city, El Cenizo does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The population of El Cenizo has a very low overall level of education: only 7.47% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in El Cenizo in 2018 was $13,558, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,232 for a family of four. However, El Cenizo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. El Cenizo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.40% of its population below the federal poverty line.
El Cenizo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call El Cenizo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in El Cenizo, accounting for 96.90% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of El Cenizo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in El Cenizo include French, French Canadian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of El Cenizo's cultural character, accounting for 32.08% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in El Cenizo is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 95.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in El Cenizo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.6%), and 9.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak English (6.2%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in El Cenizo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (95.3%). In addition, 32.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
