Monument is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 213 people and just one neighborhood, Monument is the 151st largest community in New Mexico.
Monument is a blue-collar town, with 100.00% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Monument is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Monument who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).
Overall, Monument’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Monument 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. Monument has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Monument than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Monument may be for you.
In Monument, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 42.61 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Monument doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Monument ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 0.00% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Monument in 2022 was $25,113, which is lower middle income relative to New Mexico, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,452 for a family of four. However, Monument contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Monument is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Monument home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Monument, accounting for 81.24% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Monument residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Monument include Scots-Irish, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Monument's cultural character, accounting for 40.27% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Monument is Spanish. 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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.2% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 41.8% 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, 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 11 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.9% of America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 42.9% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.1% of American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 59.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 2.3% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.8% 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 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Monument are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.2% 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 57.5% of America'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, 42.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.3%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 49.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (48.4%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Monument, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (59.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.3%), and residents who report German roots (5.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.3%), among others. In addition, 15.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (18.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.