Jemez Springs is a tiny village located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 197 people and just one neighborhood, Jemez Springs is the 153rd largest community in New Mexico.
Jemez Springs real estate is some of the most expensive in New Mexico, although Jemez Springs house values don't compare to the most expensive real estate in the U.S.
Jemez Springs is a decidedly white-collar village, with fully 97.06% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Jemez Springs is a village of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Jemez Springs who work in office and administrative support (36.47%), healthcare suport services (15.88%), and food service (12.94%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 38.82% 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.
Overall, Jemez Springs’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
Residents will find that the village is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Jemez Springs is worth considering.
As is often the case in a small village, Jemez Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Jemez Springs ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Jemez Springs, 41.56% have at least a bachelor's degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Jemez Springs in 2022 was $43,546, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $174,184 for a family of four. However, Jemez Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Jemez Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Jemez Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jemez Springs residents report their race to be White. Jemez Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.80% of the village’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Jemez Springs include Irish, German, English, Norwegian, and Latvian.
The most common language spoken in Jemez Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 31.4%, which is higher than 95.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Jemez Springs is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in NM, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.9% of the neighborhoods in New Mexico. If you are considering retiring to New Mexico, this is a good neighborhood to look at. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 41.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 0.9% have Belgian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 30.2% 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.
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 Jemez Springs are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 69.3% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 53.9% of America'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, 40.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.7%), and 15.1% in manufacturing and laborer 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 55.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Spanish.
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 Jemez Springs, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (41.4%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (7.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.7%), along with some German ancestry residents (6.6%), 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 between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (31.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (74.3%) 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 (17.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.