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.When you are in Alba, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.45% of Alba’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Alba is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alba who work in sales jobs (21.35%), healthcare suport services (9.55%), and healthcare (8.43%). 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. One downside of living in Alba is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Alba, the average commute to work is 31.59 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. Alba 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.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 2022 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.
