Mentmore is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,986 people and two associated neighborhoods, Mentmore is the 54th largest community in New Mexico.Mentmore is a blue-collar town, with 36.50% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Mentmore is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mentmore who work in office and administrative support (11.65%), food service (9.76%), and healthcare suport services (9.06%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.54% 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. 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, Mentmore has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mentmore a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small town, Mentmore does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Mentmore ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Mentmore in 2022 was $16,701, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,804 for a family of four. However, Mentmore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mentmore also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 33.60% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Mentmore home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mentmore residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Mentmore include Northern European, Russian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Mentmore is Navajo. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.
