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Nageezi, NM

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Overview


Nageezi is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 277 people and just one neighborhood, Nageezi is the 145th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Nageezi is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.58% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Nageezi is a town of managers, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Nageezi who work in business and financial occupations (64.60%), healthcare suport services (13.27%), and food service (6.19%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.50% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Nageezi’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Nageezi has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Nageezi has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Nageezi than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Nageezi may be for you.

One downside of living in Nageezi is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Nageezi, the average commute to work is 38.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Nageezi doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Nageezi ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 1.34% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Nageezi in 2022 was $41,666, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $166,664 for a family of four. Nageezi also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 54.55% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Nageezi home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Nageezi residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Nageezi include German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Nageezi is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Nageezi, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.5% 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.

Modes of Transportation

Our research reveals that 91.0% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

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, 74.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 53.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Nageezi are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% 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, 32.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.4%), and 17.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 Native American languages, spoken by 53.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.

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 Nageezi, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (74.4%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.7%), and residents who report Mexican roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (2.7%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (91.0%) 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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