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Stanfield, AZ

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Overview


Stanfield is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 558 people and just one neighborhood, Stanfield is the 165th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Stanfield is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 57.63% of the Stanfield workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Stanfield is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Stanfield who work in maintenance occupations (18.08%), teaching (16.95%), and farm management occupations (8.47%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

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, Stanfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Stanfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One of the benefits of Stanfield is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.20 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.

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

Demographics

The citizens of Stanfield are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.81% of adults in Stanfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Stanfield in 2022 was $20,225, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,900 for a family of four. However, Stanfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Stanfield also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 57.99% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Stanfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Stanfield 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 Stanfield, accounting for 74.40% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Stanfield residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Stanfield include German, Irish, English, Scandinavian, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in Stanfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.

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.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 38.2% 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.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 4.3% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of America's neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.7%) than in 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 21.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 55.4% have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.3% 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 Stanfield are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 47.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.1% 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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 20.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (19.5%), and 12.4% 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 56.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Stanfield, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (55.4%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (21.6%), and residents who report German roots (5.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 18.8% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.7%) 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 (22.7%) and 6.7% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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