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 , Pena Blanca isn't mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pena Blanca are a mix 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 very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pena Blanca 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. 100% 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.

Being a small town, Pena Blanca does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Pena Blanca Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Pena Blanca is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 22.54% of adults 25 and older in the town 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.