La Pryor is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,294 people and just one neighborhood, La Pryor is the 768th largest community in Texas.
When you are in La Pryor, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.66% of La Pryor’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, La Pryor is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in La Pryor who work in office and administrative support (13.03%), farm management occupations (9.83%), and sales jobs (7.69%).
Another important characteristic of La Pryor is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Of important note, La Pryor is also a town of artists. La Pryor has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape La Pryor’s character.
The town 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, La Pryor has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes La Pryor a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in La Pryor, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.97 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, La Pryor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of La Pryor has a very low overall level of education: only 7.48% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in La Pryor in 2022 was $19,914, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,656 for a family of four. However, La Pryor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Pryor is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call La Pryor 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 Pryor, accounting for 90.97% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of La Pryor residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in La Pryor include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in La Pryor is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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 Pryor, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.9% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.3% of all neighborhoods in America.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.9% of America.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 90.8% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all American neighborhoods.
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, 88.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in La Pryor are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 34.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 13.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 64.6% of households. Some people also speak English (35.4%).
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 Pryor, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (88.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.9%), and residents who report Asian roots (2.6%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (28.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (13.9%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (90.8%) 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.