Los Indios is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,009 people and just one neighborhood, Los Indios is the 823rd largest community in Texas.
Los Indios is a blue-collar town, with 38.69% 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 (16.35%), maintenance occupations (9.26%), and healthcare suport services (6.81%).
A relatively large number of people in Los Indios telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.39% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
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.
In Los Indios, just 6.08% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Los Indios in 2022 was $17,073, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,292 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 97.09% 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, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Los Indios's cultural character, accounting for 21.10% 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.
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.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 7.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.1% of America's 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, 84.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 70.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.5% 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.
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 lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% 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, 36.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.7%), and 15.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 70.1% of households. Some people also speak English (29.9%).
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 (84.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (2.5%), and residents who report Italian roots (1.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 29.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (54.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (10.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.