Lochbuie is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 8,336 people and just one neighborhood, Lochbuie is the 62nd largest community in Colorado. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Lochbuie, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Lochbuie, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Lochbuie’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Lochbuie does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $88,548.00.
Lochbuie is a blue-collar town, with 40.99% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Lochbuie is a town of managers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lochbuie who work in management occupations (16.76%), office and administrative support (11.84%), and sales jobs (4.83%).
One downside of living in Lochbuie is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Lochbuie, the average commute to work is 37.10 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Lochbuie is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Lochbuie are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.00% of adults in Lochbuie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lochbuie in 2022 was $34,808, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $139,232 for a family of four. However, Lochbuie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lochbuie is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lochbuie 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 Lochbuie, accounting for 49.57% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Lochbuie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lochbuie include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Lochbuie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
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.
Homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 67.7% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
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 Lochbuie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 65.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 72.5% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 39.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 33.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.8%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.5%).
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 Lochbuie, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (42.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.5%), among others. In addition, 12.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (36.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (84.2%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.