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Alto town, Texas: commercial real estate data.
Alto town is a Census town of 1,222 people across 1.70 square miles of land, in Cherokee County. Median household income is $61,688, 54.8 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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Alto
What Alto is
- Census place typetown
- Land area1.7 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land717 plus or minus 302
- County holding the largest share of its areaCherokee County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alto
How many people live in Alto
- Population1,222 plus or minus 515
- Median age28.7
- Population under 18424 plus or minus 165
- Share under 1834.7 percent plus or minus 19.9
- Population 65 and over165 plus or minus 77
- Share 65 and over13.5 percent plus or minus 2.8
- Households409 plus or minus 136
- Family households282 plus or minus 122
- Share of households that are families68.9 percent plus or minus 19.1
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alto
Income and work in Alto
- Median household income$61,688 plus or minus $37,593
- Per capita income$30,877 plus or minus $12,633
- Civilian labor force513 plus or minus 270
- Employed480 plus or minus 247
- Unemployed33 plus or minus 39
- Unemployment rate6.4 percent plus or minus 6.8
- Adults 25 and over690 plus or minus 242
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.7 percent plus or minus 37.7
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher17.0 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree4.8 percent plus or minus 5.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alto
Housing in Alto
- Housing units538 plus or minus 160
- Occupied units409 plus or minus 136
- Vacant units129 plus or minus 70
- Vacancy rate24.0 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Owner occupied224 plus or minus 101
- Renter occupied185 plus or minus 89
- Ownership rate54.8 percent plus or minus 16.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$93,800 plus or minus $65,941
- Single family units369 plus or minus 136
- Share single family68.6 percent plus or minus 15.0
- Units in buildings of two or more137 plus or minus 84
- Share in buildings of two or more25.5 percent plus or minus 13.6
- Mobile homes32 plus or minus 31
- Median year structure built1975
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alto
How Alto gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute421 plus or minus 233
- Commuting under 15 minutes68 plus or minus 72
- Share commuting under 15 minutes16.2 percent plus or minus 14.5
- Commuting 30 minutes or more240 plus or minus 150
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more57.0 percent plus or minus 16.5
- Drove alone71.9 percent plus or minus 26.7
- Carpooled14.6 percent plus or minus 8.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.0 percent
- Worked from home12.3 percent plus or minus 9.8
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Alto
Flood risk in Alto
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number480740
- Currently effective map date01/06/11(M)
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Cherokee County, not Alto
Cherokee County context, not Alto figures
These are Cherokee County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Alto measurements.
- Establishments in Cherokee County840
- Employment at those establishments, Cherokee County11,002
- Covered employment, Cherokee County14,922
- Average annual pay, Cherokee County$51,098
- Average weekly wage, Cherokee County$983
- Housing units permitted, Cherokee County21
- Of those, single family, Cherokee County21
- County product, 2024, Cherokee County$2,079,935,000
- County product change over the prior year, Cherokee County6.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Cherokee County$66,814
Every figure in this section is published for Cherokee County as a whole and is not a measurement of Alto. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- No median gross rent is published for this place.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Alto questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Alto, Texas?
1,222, in 409 households. Alto town covers 1.70 square miles of land, which is 717 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Alto in?
Cherokee County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Alto?
$61,688. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $93,800. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Is Alto in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Alto appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 480740, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Alto figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Cherokee County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Alto.
Is zoning published for Alto?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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