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San Manuel, AZ

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Overview


San Manuel is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 3,114 people and just one neighborhood, San Manuel is the 106th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, San Manuel is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Manuel is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Manuel who work in office and administrative support (10.96%), food service (9.36%), and sales jobs (7.61%).

Of important note, San Manuel is also a town of artists. San Manuel has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape San Manuel’s character.

Also of interest is that San Manuel has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

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

One downside of living in San Manuel is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In San Manuel, the average commute to work is 37.12 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

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

Demographics

The citizens of San Manuel have a very low rate of college education: just 8.01% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in San Manuel in 2022 was $25,959, 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 $103,836 for a family of four. However, San Manuel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Manuel is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Manuel home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Manuel residents report their race to be White. San Manuel also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.42% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in San Manuel include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Scots-Irish.

The most common language spoken in San Manuel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (29.8%) than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 12.6% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 95.0% of 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 San Manuel are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.3% 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, 29.1% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (26.4%), and 16.0% 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 85.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 San Manuel, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (4.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (70.1%) 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 (29.8%) . 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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