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El Refugio CDP, Texas: commercial real estate data.
El Refugio CDP is a Census CDP of 780 people across 0.62 square miles of land, in Starr County. Median household income is $47,440, 59.0 percent of occupied homes are owned.
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This is a small place, and the figures below carry wide margins.
The American Community Survey reaches El Refugio through a sample, not a count, and in a place this size that sample is thin. The population estimate here is 780 with a margin of error of plus or minus 485, which is 62.2 percent of the estimate itself. Every figure whose margin reaches 20 percent is printed with that margin beside it, so you can see the width of each one rather than having to assume it.
Nothing has been removed or adjusted. These are the published federal estimates, shown with the uncertainty the Census publishes alongside them.
El Refugio
What El Refugio is
- Census place typeCDP
- Land area0.62 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,250 plus or minus 777
- County holding the largest share of its areaStarr 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.
El Refugio
How many people live in El Refugio
- Population780 plus or minus 485
- Median age22.3
- Population under 18286 plus or minus 149
- Share under 1836.7 percent plus or minus 29.7
- Population 65 and over31 plus or minus 51
- Share 65 and over4.0 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Households229 plus or minus 121
- Family households172 plus or minus 109
- Share of households that are families75.1 percent plus or minus 26.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
El Refugio
Income and work in El Refugio
- Median household income$47,440 plus or minus $25,133
- Per capita income$15,392 plus or minus $8,018
- Civilian labor force331 plus or minus 243
- Employed279 plus or minus 210
- Unemployed52 plus or minus 58
- Unemployment rate15.7 percent plus or minus 13.2
- Adults 25 and over368 plus or minus 206
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher68.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher1.4 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree0.0 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
El Refugio
Housing in El Refugio
- Housing units250 plus or minus 125
- Occupied units229 plus or minus 121
- Vacant units21 plus or minus 34
- Vacancy rate8.4 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Owner occupied135 plus or minus 91
- Renter occupied94 plus or minus 77
- Ownership rate59.0 percent plus or minus 24.7
- Single family units228 plus or minus 128
- Share single family91.2 percent plus or minus 22.9
- Units in buildings of two or more0
- Share in buildings of two or more0.0 percent
- Mobile homes11 plus or minus 20
- Median year structure built1988
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
El Refugio
How El Refugio gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute225 plus or minus 162
- Commuting under 15 minutes156 plus or minus 126
- Share commuting under 15 minutes69.3 percent plus or minus 25.2
- Commuting 30 minutes or more60 plus or minus 69
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more26.7 percent plus or minus 23.7
- Drove alone62.0 percent plus or minus 30.1
- Carpooled3.2 percent plus or minus 4.8
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.5 percent plus or minus 3.9
- Worked from home19.4 percent plus or minus 18.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Starr County, not El Refugio
Starr County context, not El Refugio figures
These are Starr County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as El Refugio measurements.
- Establishments in Starr County594
- Employment at those establishments, Starr County8,704
- Covered employment, Starr County14,746
- Average annual pay, Starr County$39,754
- Average weekly wage, Starr County$765
- Housing units permitted, Starr County0
- Of those, single family, Starr County0
- County product, 2024, Starr County$1,559,174,000
- County product change over the prior year, Starr County-1.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Starr County$38,313
Every figure in this section is published for Starr County as a whole and is not a measurement of El Refugio. 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- No median owner-occupied home value is published for this place.
- 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
El Refugio questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in El Refugio, Texas?
780, in 229 households. El Refugio CDP covers 0.62 square miles of land, which is 1,250 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is El Refugio in?
Starr 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 El Refugio?
$47,440. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page El Refugio figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Starr 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 El Refugio.
Is zoning published for El Refugio?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.