Los Alvarez, TX population, income and ZIP codes

Los Alvarez CDP is a very small community in Texas, with 232 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #1510 of 1,863 ranked by population — larger than 18% of them. The median age here is 48.4 years against 39.1 nationally, a markedly older profile that usually tracks retirees staying put and younger households leaving for work. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Los Alvarez CDP earn a median of $11,004 a year, 86% below the national figure of $78,538 and 83% below the $64,654 median for the 1,008 Texas cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 84.9% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Los Alvarez CDP is valued at $113,500, 62.6% below the national figure and 37% below the $179,100 peer median, while median gross rent runs not published a month. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 10.3×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is out of reach on local earnings alone and the ownership market leans on outside income, equity or dual high earners. 73.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Gross rent folds in the utilities a tenant pays separately, so it is closer to the real monthly outlay than a headline rent figure.

Home values sit at 10.3× median household income, far past the 3.9× national mark, so ownership costs here are set by something other than local wages — second homes, retirees with equity, or commuters earning elsewhere. With 232 residents, a handful of survey responses moves every median on this page. Compare Los Alvarez CDP against its county rather than against national figures.

The Census withheld gross rent for Los Alvarez CDP because the sample was too thin to publish at this geography. Those values were suppressed at the source, not lost in our dataset, and we do not model a replacement. Everything else on this page comes straight from the ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year tables.