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Chloride, AZ

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Overview


Chloride is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 229 people and just one neighborhood, Chloride is the 179th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Chloride is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Chloride is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chloride who work in art, media, and design (35.48%), healthcare (33.87%), and maintenance occupations (14.52%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Chloride telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 35.48% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Chloride is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Chloride has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Chloride a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

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

Demographics

The population of Chloride has a very low overall level of education: only 7.32% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Chloride in 2018 was $21,741, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,964 for a family of four. However, Chloride contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chloride also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Chloride home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chloride residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Chloride include French, English, Hungarian, European, and Norwegian.

The most common language spoken in Chloride is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

People

Divorcees may find friendship and understanding in this neighborhood, as 28.4% of its residents are divorced. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis found that this divorce rate is higher than in 99.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.

Real Estate

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.9% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Chloride are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 49.6% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.5%), and 8.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 91.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Chloride, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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