Lorenzo is a tiny city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 939 people and just one neighborhood, Lorenzo is the 828th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Lorenzo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.22% of the Lorenzo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Lorenzo is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lorenzo who work in maintenance occupations (12.34%), food service (10.80%), and sales jobs (6.94%).
The city 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, Lorenzo has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lorenzo a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Lorenzo 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 citizens of Lorenzo have a very low rate of college education: just 7.22% 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 Lorenzo in 2022 was $19,919, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $79,676 for a family of four. However, Lorenzo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Lorenzo also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 38.84% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Lorenzo is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lorenzo 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 Lorenzo, accounting for 73.80% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Lorenzo residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lorenzo include Irish, German, English, Romanian, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Lorenzo is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Vietnamese.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 98.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (59.0%) than found in 96.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
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 Lorenzo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 59.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.1% 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 27.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.7%), and 8.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 73.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.9%).
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 Lorenzo, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (51.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (81.9%) 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 (9.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.