Keams Canyon - Second Mesa is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 3,875 people and just one neighborhood, Keams Canyon - Second Mesa is the 91st largest community in Arizona.
Keams Canyon - Second Mesa is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Keams Canyon - Second Mesa is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Keams Canyon - Second Mesa who work in office and administrative support (14.97%), healthcare (14.97%), and teaching (12.75%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 16.69% 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.
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!) Keams Canyon - Second Mesa 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. Keams Canyon - Second Mesa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Keams Canyon - Second Mesa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Keams Canyon - Second Mesa may be for you.
Being a small town, Keams Canyon - Second Mesa does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Keams Canyon - Second Mesa, just 8.92% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Keams Canyon - Second Mesa in 2022 was $16,713, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $66,852 for a family of four. However, Keams Canyon - Second Mesa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Keams Canyon - Second Mesa also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.37% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Keams Canyon - Second Mesa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Keams Canyon - Second Mesa residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Keams Canyon - Second Mesa include English, European, Danish, Hungarian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Keams Canyon - Second Mesa is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include English and Navajo.
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.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 18.2% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
More people in choose to walk to work each day (18.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.
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, 92.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 61.4% 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.
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 Keams Canyon - Second Mesa are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 80.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 31.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.2% 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, 40.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 22.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.8%), and 18.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Native American languages, spoken by 61.4% of households. Some people also speak English (38.2%).
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 Keams Canyon - Second Mesa, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (92.7%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (3.0%).
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (60.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (18.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.