Nacogdoches is a medium-sized city located in the state of Texas. With a population of 32,381 people and 14 associated neighborhoods, Nacogdoches is the 105th largest community in Texas.

Of important note, Nacogdoches is also a city of artists. Nacogdoches has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Nacogdoches’s character.

Nacogdoches is also a major college town with a large number of people who are 18 years or older and attending college. As is often the case in college towns, the many students that live in Nacogdoches have a strong influence on the local culture and entertainment scene, which may seem dormant by comparison in the summer months when much of the student population is away. In the fall, the return of students has a reinvigorating effect on the community. Because colleges are lasting institutions, they have a stabilizing effect on the economy by providing direct local benefits such as jobs for faculty and staff and spending by students. Nacogdoches’s economy is one such example of this.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 16.86 minutes getting to work every day.

The percentage of people in Nacogdoches who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 28.49% of adults in Nacogdoches have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Nacogdoches in 2022 was $24,013, which is lower middle income relative to Texas, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $96,052 for a family of four. However, Nacogdoches contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Nacogdoches also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Nacogdoches is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Nacogdoches home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nacogdoches residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Nacogdoches also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Nacogdoches include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Nacogdoches is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.