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Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, NM

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Overview


Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,710 people and just one neighborhood, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is the 84th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca who work in office and administrative support (11.89%), teaching (11.25%), and management occupations (9.98%).

Also of interest is that Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 11.86% 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.23 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.24% of adults in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca in 2018 was $28,523, 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 $114,092 for a family of four. However, Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca include German, English, Irish, Canadian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.

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 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

Occupations

The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 15.8% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 97.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 45.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.7% have Canadian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 31.8% 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 99.9% 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 Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 37.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 18.5% 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 44.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

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 Cochiti Lake - Pena Blanca, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (45.5%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.7%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.4%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.8% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (68.6%) 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 (16.3%) . 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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