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Salem - Rincon is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,595 people and just one neighborhood, Salem - Rincon is the 63rd largest community in New Mexico.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Salem - Rincon, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 41.96% of Salem - Rincon’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Salem - Rincon is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Salem - Rincon who work in farm management occupations (21.07%), office and administrative support (17.07%), and healthcare suport services (13.60%).
Another important characteristic of Salem - Rincon is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.82% 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.
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, Salem - Rincon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Salem - Rincon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
As is often the case in a small town, Salem - Rincon doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Salem - Rincon has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.64% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Salem - Rincon in 2022 was $13,652, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,608 for a family of four. Salem - Rincon also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.50% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Salem - Rincon is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Salem - Rincon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Salem - Rincon, accounting for 88.15% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Salem - Rincon residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Salem - Rincon include Polish, Irish, English, Italian, and Greek.
In addition, Salem - Rincon has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.07%).
The most common language spoken in Salem - Rincon is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 21.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Real Estate
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 55.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.4% 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.
In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 7 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 97.8% of America.
People
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.4% 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 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America. The neighborhood also has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (69.5%) than found in 98.4% 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 Mexican and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 85.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.0% have Romanian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Migration / Stability
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 96.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Salem - Rincon are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 69.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 98.4% 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, 30.7% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 21.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.9%), and 14.7% 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 Spanish, spoken by 64.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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 Salem - Rincon, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.3%). There are also a number of people of Polish ancestry (7.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 32.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.6%) 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 (16.2%) . 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.
