In addition, Fruitland is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.
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, Fruitland has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Fruitland a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Fruitland is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fruitland, the average commute to work is 30.99 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Fruitland is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Fruitland isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 100.00% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.
Being a small town, Fruitland does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Fruitland are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.65% of adults in Fruitland have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Fruitland in 2022 was $50,844, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $203,376 for a family of four.
The people who call Fruitland home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fruitland residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Fruitland include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Fruitland is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Native American languages.
