Thoreau is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,367 people and just one neighborhood, Thoreau is the 67th largest community in New Mexico.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Thoreau is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 37.23% of the Thoreau workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Thoreau is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Thoreau who work in sales jobs (9.72%), food service (9.56%), and office and administrative support (8.57%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.74% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Thoreau has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Thoreau a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Thoreau is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Thoreau, the average commute to work is 33.32 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Thoreau 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.
Thoreau ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.65% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Thoreau in 2022 was $22,466, 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 $89,864 for a family of four. However, Thoreau contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Thoreau is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Thoreau home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Thoreau residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Thoreau include German, Danish, Irish, English, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Thoreau is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Native American languages.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 93.9% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 96.3% of all neighborhoods in America, with 33.4% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 83.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 3.3% have Danish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 54.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Thoreau are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 92.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.3% of U.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, 40.7% 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 31.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (19.4%), and 8.9% 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 Native American languages, spoken by 54.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Thoreau, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (83.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (6.3%), and residents who report Danish roots (3.3%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (2.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.1%), 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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.8%) 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 (5.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.