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Chimayo - Truchas, NM

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Overview


Chimayo - Truchas is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 3,208 people and just one neighborhood, Chimayo - Truchas is the 52nd largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Chimayo - Truchas is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chimayo - Truchas is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chimayo - Truchas who work in office and administrative support (26.72%), sales jobs (12.76%), and management occupations (7.44%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 18.14% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

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

In Chimayo - Truchas, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.19 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Chimayo - Truchas with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.07% of adults in Chimayo - Truchas have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Chimayo - Truchas in 2018 was $39,259, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $157,036 for a family of four. However, Chimayo - Truchas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Chimayo - Truchas is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Chimayo - Truchas 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 Chimayo - Truchas, accounting for 86.81% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Chimayo - Truchas residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Chimayo - Truchas include German, Irish, English, French, and Russian.

The most common language spoken in Chimayo - Truchas is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 54.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

The first thing that you'll notice if you moved to this neighborhood is that an astounding 3.0% of the households are same sex couples. According to NeighborhoodScout's analysis, this is a higher proportion of same sex households than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America. This is one indicator that this neighborhood is likely a gay-friendly neighborhood. So if you are looking for such a neighborhood, the neighborhood should definitely be on your list of places to consider.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.7% of all neighborhoods in America, with 35.2% 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, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 27 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 93.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

Diversity

Significantly, 73.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Chimayo - Truchas are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 66.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.3% 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, 33.0% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.8%), and 19.8% 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 Spanish, spoken by 73.1% of households. Some people also speak English (26.5%).

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 Chimayo - Truchas, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.8%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (31.4%), and residents who report German roots (3.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.8%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (59.2% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (79.7%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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