Elida is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 158 people and just one neighborhood, Elida is the 156th largest community in New Mexico.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Elida is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.67% of the Elida workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Elida is a town of transportation and shipping workers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elida who work in management occupations (25.71%), office and administrative support (8.57%), and sales jobs (7.62%).
Elida’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Elida has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Elida a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Elida, even though it is a small town, has many people who use public transportation every day to get to and from work. This is a great benefit for people in the, town who have a need for low-cost transportation.
The percentage of adults in Elida who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 18.13% of the adults in Elida have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elida in 2022 was $52,535, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $210,140 for a family of four. However, Elida contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Elida is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elida home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elida residents report their race to be White. Elida also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.78% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Elida include English, Italian, Irish, German, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Elida is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Elida, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.0%) living in the neighborhood.
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, 3.1% 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 Elida are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.3% 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, 31.9% 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 26.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.6%), and 14.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (37.7%).
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 Elida, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (48.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (9.4%), and residents who report English roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.7%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (3.1%), among others. In addition, 14.7% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (16.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.