Chimayo - Truchas is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 3,194 people and just one neighborhood, Chimayo - Truchas is the 52nd largest community in New Mexico.
Unlike some towns, Chimayo - Truchas isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Chimayo - Truchas are a mix of both white- and blue-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%).
A relatively large number of people in Chimayo - Truchas telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.14% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Overall, Chimayo - Truchas’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Chimayo - Truchas is worth considering.
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.
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 2022 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.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Chimayo - Truchas, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual 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.
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.
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, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 27 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 93.4% of America.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. 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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 73.1% of households. Some people also speak English (26.5%).
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 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.
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 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.