Overall, Zapata’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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, Zapata has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Zapata a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Zapata is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.73 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small town, Zapata doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Zapata rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.96% of adults 25 and older in Zapata have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Zapata in 2022 was $21,739, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $86,956 for a family of four. However, Zapata contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Zapata is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Zapata 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 Zapata, accounting for 92.68% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Zapata residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Zapata include German, English, Polish, Irish, and Other Subsaharan African.
Zapata also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 19.88%.
The most common language spoken in Zapata is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
