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.
Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, La Joya is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce 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 (14.73%), office and administrative support (10.56%), and healthcare suport services (9.79%).
A relatively large number of people in La Joya telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.76% 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.
La Joya is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in La Joya who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.26% of the adults in La Joya have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in La Joya in 2022 was $19,504, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,016 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 95.97% 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 19.64% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in La Joya is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Vietnamese.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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, 88.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 90.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.6% 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 Joya 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 21.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 71.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.2%), and 14.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 90.6% of households. Some people also speak English (8.3%).
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 La Joya, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (88.0%). In addition, 22.6% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (82.8%) 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 (10.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.