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San Carlos, AZ

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Overview


San Carlos is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 3,987 people and just one neighborhood, San Carlos is the 88th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, San Carlos isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Carlos are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Carlos is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in San Carlos who work in office and administrative support (15.40%), maintenance occupations (12.95%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (11.70%).

Setting & Lifestyle

San Carlos 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 San Carlos has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.83% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in San Carlos in 2022 was $15,523, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,092 for a family of four. However, San Carlos contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. San Carlos also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 44.17% of its population below the federal poverty line.

San Carlos is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Carlos home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Carlos residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in San Carlos include Scottish, Scots-Irish, German, Irish, and Yugoslavian.

The most common language spoken in San Carlos is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 37.0% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Real Estate

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 5 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.1% of America.

People

The neighborhood is unique for having just 4.1% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of America's neighborhoods.

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 5.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 16.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 66.2% have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 36.0% 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 99.9% 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 San Carlos are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 40.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 38.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 20.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.4%), and 17.0% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.8% of households. Some people also speak Native American languages (36.0%).

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 San Carlos, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (66.2%). There are also a number of people of Scottish ancestry (16.4%), and residents who report Scots-Irish roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.2%).

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (40.7% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (55.4%) 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 (37.0%) . 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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