Zapata is a somewhat small town located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,383 people and five associated neighborhoods, Zapata is the 360th largest community in Texas.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.99% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Zapata has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Zapata has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Zapata than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Zapata may be for you.

One of the benefits of Zapata is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.37 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

Being a small town, Zapata does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The citizens of Zapata are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 24.16% of adults in Zapata having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Zapata in 2022 was $24,285, which is low income relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,140 for a family of four. However, Zapata contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Zapata also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.51% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Zapata is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Zapata 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 Zapata, accounting for 89.22% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Zapata residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Zapata include German, English, Other Subsaharan African, British, and French Canadian.

Zapata also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 20.97%.

The most common language spoken in Zapata is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.