Alamosa is also a college town, where lots of students live while attending area colleges. Because of the high percentage of people living in Alamosa enrolled in college, Alamosa has a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards the needs and activities of students.
One of the benefits of Alamosa is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 13.34 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
The percentage of people in Alamosa who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.99% of adults in Alamosa have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Alamosa in 2018 was $26,750, which is low income relative to Colorado, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $107,000 for a family of four. However, Alamosa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Alamosa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Alamosa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Alamosa, accounting for 53.88% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Alamosa residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alamosa include Irish, German, English, European, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Alamosa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
