Santa Anna is a very small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 1,030 people and just one neighborhood, Santa Anna is the 821st largest community in Texas.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Santa Anna is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Santa Anna is a town of service providers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Santa Anna who work in maintenance occupations (13.45%), food service (12.36%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (10.36%).
Of important note, Santa Anna is also a town of artists. Santa Anna has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Santa Anna’s character.
As is often the case in a small town, Santa Anna doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Santa Anna is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.15% of adults 25 and older in Santa Anna have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Santa Anna in 2022 was $21,579, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,316 for a family of four. However, Santa Anna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Santa Anna is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Santa Anna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Santa Anna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Santa Anna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.27% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Santa Anna include German, European, Irish, French, and English.
The most common language spoken in Santa Anna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Greek.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 36.3%, which is higher than 97.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you are planning to retire in Texas, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in Texas, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 97.0% of neighborhoods in TX. If a Texas retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
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 Santa Anna are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 59.4% 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, 32.5% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.0%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.0%).
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 Santa Anna, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (10.1%), and residents who report English roots (9.9%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (9.3%), along with some Scots-Irish ancestry residents (5.1%), among others.
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 (36.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (70.7%) 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 (16.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.