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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 4,863 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 citizens of La Joya are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.22% of adults in La Joya having a bachelor's degree or advanced 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

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.

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.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

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

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

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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