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La Joya, TX

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Overview


La Joya is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,660 people and just one neighborhood, La Joya is the 409th largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, La Joya isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Joya are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Joya is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Joya who work in teaching (18.18%), office and administrative support (14.49%), and healthcare suport services (10.74%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Being a small city, La Joya does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The education level of La Joya citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.22% of adults in La Joya have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in La Joya in 2022 was $17,711, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $70,844 for a family of four. However, La Joya contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

La Joya is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Joya 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 La Joya, accounting for 93.83% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of La Joya residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in La Joya include Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

Foreign born people are also an important part of La Joya's cultural character, accounting for 18.19% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in La Joya is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Vietnamese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in La Joya, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

People

Single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 19.0% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.4% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

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, 87.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 84.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in La Joya are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 77.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 37.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 23.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.0%), and 19.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 84.0% of households. Some people also speak English (13.6%).

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 La Joya, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (87.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (1.2%). In addition, 17.7% 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.0%) 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 (15.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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