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Hope, NM

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Overview


Hope is a tiny village located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 109 people and just one neighborhood, Hope is the 161st largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Hope is a blue-collar town, with 53.57% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hope is a village of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Hope who work in teaching (32.14%), farm management occupations (28.57%), and healthcare (10.71%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Hope’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet village because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Hope has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Hope has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Hope than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Hope may be for you.

Hope is a small village, 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 Hope, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 100.00% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Hope are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 21.05% of adults in Hope having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Hope in 2018 was $28,038, which is middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,152 for a family of four. However, Hope contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Hope is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Hope 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 Hope, accounting for 60.00% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hope residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hope include French, German, Polish, Irish, and Yugoslavian.

Hope also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.90%.

The most common language spoken in Hope is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 32.0% 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.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Hope are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.4% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 4.4% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 66.7% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 48.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 29.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.9%), and 3.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Hope, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (3.5%). In addition, 10.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (44.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.4%) 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 (9.1%) . 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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