About Corrales

Corrales is a somewhat small village located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 7,430 people and just one neighborhood, Corrales is the 29th largest community in New Mexico.

Corrales is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 85.23% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Corrales is a village of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Corrales who work in management occupations (16.20%), sales jobs (11.17%), and office and administrative support jobs (9.74%).

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

Also of interest is that Corrales has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their homes - 8.01% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Corrales is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Corrales Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Corrales is a pretty powerful place. 51.26% of the adults in Corrales have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Corrales in 2000 was $33,629, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $134,516 for a family of four. However, Corrales contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Corrales is a somewhat ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Corrales home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Corrales is White, followed by Native American. Corrales also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.28% of the village's residents. Important ancestries of people in Corrales include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Swedish.

The most common language spoken in Corrales is English. Some people also speak Spanish.