Alamo Heights TX Homes for Sale

Alamo Heights TX Homes for Sale

Alamo Heights is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 8,413 people and just one neighborhood, Alamo Heights is the 280th largest community in Texas.

Alamo Heights home prices are not only among the most expensive in Texas, but Alamo Heights real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Alamo Heights is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 97.75% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Alamo Heights is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alamo Heights who work in management occupations (20.15%), business and financial occupations (13.34%), and healthcare (13.07%).

Also of interest is that Alamo Heights has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Alamo Heights is home to many people who could be described as “urban sophisticates”. Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. “Urban sophisticates” is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call ‘urbaneness’. But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

If knowledge is power, Alamo Heights is a pretty powerful place. 73.56% of the adults in Alamo Heights have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Alamo Heights in 2010 was $67,053, which is wealthy relative to Texas and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $268,212 for a family of four.

Alamo Heights is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Alamo Heights home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alamo Heights residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Alamo Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.95% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Alamo Heights include German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and French.

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