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Santa Teresa, NM

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Overview


Santa Teresa is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 5,044 people and just one neighborhood, Santa Teresa is the 43rd largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Santa Teresa is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Santa Teresa is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Santa Teresa who work in sales jobs (27.50%), office and administrative support (11.65%), and management occupations (7.67%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Santa Teresa 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 education level of Santa Teresa ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Santa Teresa, 40.76% 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 Santa Teresa in 2018 was $25,663, which is middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,652 for a family of four. However, Santa Teresa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Santa Teresa also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.81% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Santa Teresa is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Santa Teresa 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 Santa Teresa, accounting for 80.85% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Santa Teresa residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Santa Teresa include German, English, Irish, British, and Italian.

Santa Teresa also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 17.64%.

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

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.

Real Estate

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 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 83.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 64.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Santa Teresa are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.5% 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 34.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.9%), and 13.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 64.0% of households. Some people also speak English (34.1%).

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 Santa Teresa, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.9%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.6%), and residents who report English roots (2.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.2%). In addition, 18.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.0%) 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 (21.6%) . 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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