Loma is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 1,314 people and just one neighborhood, Loma is the 170th largest community in Colorado. Much of the housing stock in Loma was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Loma economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Loma, where the median household income is $137,995.00.
Housing costs in Loma are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in Colorado.
Unlike some towns, Loma isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Loma are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Loma is a town of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Loma who work in management occupations (28.67%), food service (15.39%), and office and administrative support (6.58%).
Because of many things, Loma is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Loma a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Loma has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Loma’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
Loma 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 education level of Loma citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.08% of adults in Loma have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Loma in 2022 was $36,372, which is middle income relative to Colorado, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,488 for a family of four. However, Loma contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Loma home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Loma residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Loma include Italian, German, English, Irish, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Loma is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and German/Yiddish.
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.
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 21 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.5% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Austrian and Armenian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Austrian ancestry and 2.0% have Armenian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% 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 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Loma are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.8% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.9% 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 53.5% 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, 44.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.3%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 95.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and Polish.
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 Loma, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (17.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (5.4%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (76.9%) 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 (9.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.