Walsenburg is a very small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 3,085 people and just one neighborhood, Walsenburg is the 114th largest community in Colorado. Much of the housing stock in Walsenburg was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic cities in the country.
Walsenburg is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.80% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Walsenburg is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walsenburg who work in management occupations (15.18%), law enforcement and fire fighting (10.60%), and sales jobs (9.63%).
Of important note, Walsenburg is also a city of artists. Walsenburg has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Walsenburg’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 23.35% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
One of the benefits of Walsenburg is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 15.65 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small city, Walsenburg doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Walsenburg with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.12% of adults in Walsenburg have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Walsenburg in 2022 was $23,213, which is low income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,852 for a family of four. However, Walsenburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Walsenburg is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Walsenburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Walsenburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Walsenburg also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.78% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Walsenburg include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Walsenburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 69.8% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
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 Walsenburg are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 39.0% 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 31.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.0%), and 12.2% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 90.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (8.7%).
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 Walsenburg, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.9%), and residents who report Spanish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (6.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.3%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (69.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (74.5%) 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.