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Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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Flora Vista is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,048 people and just one neighborhood, Flora Vista is the 75th largest community in New Mexico.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Flora Vista is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 44.46% of the Flora Vista workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Flora Vista is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Flora Vista who work in healthcare suport services (10.72%), healthcare (9.74%), and sales jobs (6.21%).
Setting & Lifestyle
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, Flora Vista has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Flora Vista a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Flora Vista 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.
Demographics
The population of Flora Vista has a very low overall level of education: only 9.49% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.
The per capita income in Flora Vista in 2022 was $28,082, which is middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,328 for a family of four. However, Flora Vista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Flora Vista is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Flora Vista home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Flora Vista residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Flora Vista also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.40% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Flora Vista include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and British.
The most common language spoken in Flora Vista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 50.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
Occupations
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 98.2% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and British ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 2.1% have British ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% 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 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
The Neighbors
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 Flora Vista are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 88.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.5% 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, 47.2% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.3%), and 13.9% 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 83.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.9%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Flora Vista, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (17.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.4%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (6.2%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (86.1%) 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.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
