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Vado, NM

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Overview


Vado is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,930 people and just one neighborhood, Vado is the 56th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Vado, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.48% of Vado’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Vado is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Vado who work in food service (17.78%), healthcare suport services (8.35%), and sales jobs (7.02%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Vado 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

Vado ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 4.07% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Vado in 2022 was $14,144, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $56,576 for a family of four. Vado also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.73% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Vado is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Vado 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 Vado, accounting for 94.51% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Vado residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Vado include German, Irish, English, French, and Yugoslavian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Vado's cultural character, accounting for 32.72% of the town’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 69.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 44.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

People

The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the United States. Also of note, 61.0% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.

In addition, single parenting is hard. But you don't have to tell the neighborhood about it; they already know. 17.7% of this neighborhood's households are run by single mothers, which is a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.4% of American neighborhoods. Further NeighborhoodScout research showed strong statistical correlations among high rates of children living in single parent households, and neighborhood crime, particularly violent crime, neighborhood poverty, and, importantly, the percentage of low weight births and rates of infant mortality.

Also, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 92.7% 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 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

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 45.2% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 97.4% of American neighborhoods.

Furthermore, each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

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, 83.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.0% 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 99.0% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Vado are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 61.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 97.2% 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, 45.2% 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 30.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.3%), and 7.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

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 Spanish, spoken by 81.3% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Vado, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (83.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of Spanish ancestry (2.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 32.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (80.3%) 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 (19.1%) . 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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