About Pena Blanca

Pena Blanca is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 637 people and just one neighborhood, Pena Blanca is the 102nd largest community in New Mexico.

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pena Blanca is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pena Blanca is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Pena Blanca who work in teaching (17.16%), sales jobs (13.02%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.65%).

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

In Pena Blanca, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 40.24 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Pena Blanca is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Pena Blanca, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

As is often the case in a small town, Pena Blanca doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Pena Blanca Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Pena Blanca who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 14.96%: 22.54% of adults in Pena Blanca have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pena Blanca in 2000 was $15,073, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $60,292 for a family of four.

Pena Blanca is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pena Blanca home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Pena Blanca, accounting for 79.43% of the town's residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The most prevalent race in Pena Blanca is Native American, followed by African-American. The main ancestry of people in Pena Blanca is German.

The most common language spoken in Pena Blanca is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Native American languages.