Another important characteristic of La Pryor is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Of important note, La Pryor is also a town of artists. La Pryor has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape La Pryor’s character.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) La Pryor has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. La Pryor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in La Pryor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, La Pryor may be for you.
One downside of living in La Pryor is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In La Pryor, the average commute to work is 30.86 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
La Pryor is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of La Pryor isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 96.92% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
As is often the case in a small town, La Pryor doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
