Eagle Lake is a very small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 3,508 people and just one neighborhood, Eagle Lake is the 484th largest community in Texas.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Eagle Lake is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.75% of the Eagle Lake workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Eagle Lake is a city of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Eagle Lake who work in healthcare (11.96%), sales jobs (10.81%), and management occupations (10.47%).
Being a small city, Eagle Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Eagle Lake is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.08% of adults 25 and older in Eagle Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Eagle Lake in 2022 was $27,139, which is lower middle income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $108,556 for a family of four. However, Eagle Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Eagle Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Eagle Lake 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 Eagle Lake, accounting for 63.11% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Eagle Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Eagle Lake include German, Italian, French, English, and Czech.
The most common language spoken in Eagle Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 13.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 24 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.9% of America.
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 Eagle Lake are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.1% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 54.9% of America'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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (30.1%).
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 Eagle Lake, TX, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (50.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Italian roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.8%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.3%), among others.
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 (35.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (13.1%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (14.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.