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Flora Vista, NM

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Overview


Flora Vista is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,048 people and just one neighborhood, Flora Vista is the 75th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Flora Vista is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Flora Vista is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flora Vista who work in healthcare suport services (14.64%), management occupations (11.45%), and teaching (11.22%).

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Flora Vista 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. Flora Vista has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Flora Vista than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Flora Vista may be for you.

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

Demographics

In Flora Vista, just 8.69% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Flora Vista in 2018 was $28,224, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,896 for a family of four. However, Flora Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Flora Vista is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Flora Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flora Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Flora Vista also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.58% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Flora Vista include Irish, German, European, Scottish, and British.

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

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.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 45.3% 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 Danish and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 0.8% have Belgian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Flora Vista are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 22.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.8% 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, 36.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 29.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.7%), and 12.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 83.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (15.4%).

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 Flora Vista, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (4.6%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (83.1%) 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 (5.9%) . 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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