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La Plata, NM

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Overview


La Plata is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,105 people and just one neighborhood, La Plata is the 74th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, La Plata isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in La Plata are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, La Plata is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Plata who work in sales jobs (12.74%), healthcare (10.81%), and office and administrative support (7.85%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Overall, La Plata’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of La Plata rank slightly lower than the national average. 16.89% of adults 25 and older in La Plata have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in La Plata in 2018 was $28,234, 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 $112,936 for a family of four. However, La Plata contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

La Plata is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call La Plata home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Plata residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. La Plata also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 24.33% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Plata include German, Irish, English, European, and Welsh.

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

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 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.2% 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.

In addition, 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 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of New Mexico. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools. In addition to being an excellent choice for families with school-aged children, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for active retirees.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 12.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.7% have Welsh ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.9% 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 99.7% 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 La Plata are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.1% of U.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, 31.3% 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 27.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (27.2%), and 13.6% 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 75.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in La Plata, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.9%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report German roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (3.9%), 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 (52.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (76.3%) 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 (16.5%) . 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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