Mineola is a somewhat small city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 5,119 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mineola is the 390th largest community in Texas.Mineola is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Mineola is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mineola who work in office and administrative support (14.22%), maintenance occupations (7.57%), and teaching (7.57%). Also of interest is that Mineola has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 17.09% 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. Mineola is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In terms of college education, Mineola is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.62% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Mineola in 2022 was $40,749, which is wealthy relative to Texas, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $162,996 for a family of four. However, Mineola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mineola is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mineola home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mineola residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Mineola also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.37% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mineola include English, Irish, German, Scottish, and French. The most common language spoken in Mineola is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
