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Los Indios, TX

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Overview


Los Indios is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,011 people and just one neighborhood, Los Indios is the 823rd largest community in Texas.

Occupations and Workforce

Los Indios is a blue-collar town, with 37.66% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Los Indios is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Los Indios who work in sales jobs (13.25%), healthcare suport services (10.65%), and maintenance occupations (8.57%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.99% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Los Indios 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. Los Indios has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Los Indios than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Los Indios may be for you.

Los Indios is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Los Indios have a very low rate of college education: just 6.26% 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 Los Indios in 2018 was $14,873, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $59,492 for a family of four. However, Los Indios contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Los Indios is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Los Indios 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 Los Indios, accounting for 97.63% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Los Indios residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Los Indios include Irish, Italian, German, English, and French.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Los Indios's cultural character, accounting for 21.94% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Los Indios is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.

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 Los Indios, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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, 92.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 77.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Los Indios are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.8% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.6%), and 14.1% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 77.4% of households. Some people also speak English (22.6%).

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 Los Indios, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (92.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (1.9%), and residents who report German roots (1.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (1.5%). In addition, 34.5% 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 (55.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (9.2%) . 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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