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    Animas, NM

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    Overview


    Animas is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 180 people and just one neighborhood, Animas is the 155th largest community in New Mexico.

    Occupations and Workforce

    Unlike some towns, Animas isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Animas are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Animas is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Animas who work in teaching (24.32%), sales jobs (12.61%), and management occupations (11.71%).

    Setting & Lifestyle

    Another notable thing is that Animas is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

    Overall, Animas’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

    Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Animas spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 15.25 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

    Being a small town, Animas does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

    Demographics

    In terms of college education, Animas is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.14% of adults in Animas have a college degree.

    The per capita income in Animas in 2022 was $35,334, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,336 for a family of four. However, Animas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

    Animas is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Animas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Animas residents report their race to be White. Animas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.52% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Animas include German, Irish, European, English, and French.

    Foreign born people are also an important part of Animas's cultural character, accounting for 15.59% of the town’s population.

    The most common language spoken in Animas 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.

    Real Estate

    Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

    In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

    Furthermore, owner-occupied real estate dominates the neighborhood. In fact, according to NeighborhoodScout research, the percentage of residential real estate occupied by its owner is higher here than in 97.3% of neighborhoods in America. Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 37.6%, which is higher than 97.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

    Modes of Transportation

    While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 92.9% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.3% of all American neighborhoods.

    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 17.3% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 98.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.

    People

    Of particular note, 2.8% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

    In addition, the neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (53.0%) than found in 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

    Diversity

    Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry.

    The Neighbors

    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 Animas are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 53.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.1% of U.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, 34.0% 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 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.8%), and 18.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

    Languages

    The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (19.2%).

    Ethnicity / Ancestry

    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 Animas, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (38.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.9%), and residents who report German roots (9.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.3%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.7%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

    Here most residents (92.9%) 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.


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