Lorenzo is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 924 people and just one neighborhood, Lorenzo is the 828th largest community in Texas.
Lorenzo is a blue-collar town, with 42.28% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lorenzo is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lorenzo who work in management occupations (11.92%), food service (9.49%), and sales jobs (8.40%).
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lorenzo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lorenzo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small city, Lorenzo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Lorenzo have a very low rate of college education: just 6.58% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Lorenzo in 2022 was $21,103, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $84,412 for a family of four. However, Lorenzo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lorenzo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lorenzo 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 Lorenzo, accounting for 66.43% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Lorenzo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lorenzo include German, Irish, English, Romanian, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Lorenzo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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 Lorenzo, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Lorenzo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% 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, 33.2% 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 30.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 7.7% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.4%).
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 Lorenzo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (41.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.1%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.2%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.4% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (7.7%) and 5.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.