Elsa is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,693 people and just one neighborhood, Elsa is the 348th largest community in Texas. Much of the housing stock in Elsa was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Elsa economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Elsa, where the median household income is $55,519.00.
Elsa is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elsa is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elsa who work in teaching (14.25%), office and administrative support (9.93%), and sales jobs (9.40%).
As is often the case in a small city, Elsa doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Elsa is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.16% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elsa in 2022 was $24,698, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,792 for a family of four. However, Elsa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Elsa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Elsa 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 Elsa, accounting for 100.00% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Elsa residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Elsa include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
In addition, Elsa has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.51%).
The most common language spoken in Elsa is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Elsa, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 12.3% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
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, 100.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 83.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Elsa are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 85.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.5% 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, 31.1% 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 26.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.1%), and 19.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 83.9% of households. Some people also speak English (16.1%).
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 Elsa, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (100.0%). In addition, 15.3% 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 (42.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (10.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.