Carrizo Springs is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 4,586 people and two associated neighborhoods, Carrizo Springs is the 387th largest community in Texas.When you are in Carrizo Springs, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.55% of Carrizo Springs’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Carrizo Springs is a city of managers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Carrizo Springs who work in management occupations (11.72%), office and administrative support (10.45%), and food service (6.43%). Being a small city, Carrizo Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In Carrizo Springs, just 8.28% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Carrizo Springs in 2022 was $26,025, 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 $104,100 for a family of four. However, Carrizo Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Carrizo Springs also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.25% of its population below the federal poverty line.Carrizo Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Carrizo Springs 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 Carrizo Springs, accounting for 90.83% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Carrizo Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Carrizo Springs include Irish, European, Czechoslovakian, English, and German. The most common language spoken in Carrizo Springs is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
