Blanco is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 491 people and just one neighborhood, Blanco is the 139th largest community in New Mexico.
Blanco is a military town: the armed forces employs 6.52% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Mining and Finance are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 32.56% and 23.26% of the civilian workforce respectively.
A relatively large number of people in Blanco telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.76% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Blanco’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!) Blanco 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. Blanco has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Blanco than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Blanco may be for you.
Being a small town, Blanco does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Blanco who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 17.20% of the adults in Blanco have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Blanco in 2022 was $36,415, which is upper middle income relative to New Mexico, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $145,660 for a family of four. However, Blanco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Blanco is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Blanco home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Blanco residents report their race to be White. Blanco also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.89% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Blanco include Irish, Norwegian, Canadian, Scottish, and German.
The most common language spoken in Blanco is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Spanish.
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.
Our research reveals that 93.5% of commuters who live in the neighborhood get to work each day by driving alone in their automobiles, which is a higher proportion than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 99.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 49.8% 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.
In addition, 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 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
With a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 89.7% of the neighborhoods in NM. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 1.0% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Blanco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 29.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 81.1% 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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 31.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.2%), and 7.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 English, spoken by 68.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Blanco, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (16.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (9.8%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (8.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.2%), among others.
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 (38.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (93.5%) 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.