El Cenizo is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 2,451 people and just one neighborhood, El Cenizo is the 570th largest community in Texas.
When you are in El Cenizo, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.32% of El Cenizo’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, El Cenizo is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Cenizo who work in office and administrative support (14.95%), maintenance occupations (10.95%), and healthcare suport services (8.68%).
One downside of living in El Cenizo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 35.64 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small city, El Cenizo doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of El Cenizo have a very low rate of college education: just 7.47% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in El Cenizo in 2022 was $13,558, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,232 for a family of four. However, El Cenizo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. El Cenizo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.40% of its population below the federal poverty line.
El Cenizo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call El Cenizo 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 El Cenizo, accounting for 96.90% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of El Cenizo residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in El Cenizo include French, French Canadian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
In addition, El Cenizo has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.08%).
The most common language spoken in El Cenizo is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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, 95.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 93.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.8% 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 El Cenizo are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.8% 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, 39.4% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.6%), and 9.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 93.8% of households. Some people also speak English (6.2%).
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 El Cenizo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (95.3%). In addition, 32.1% 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (54.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (83.3%) 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 (13.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.