Manassa - Antonito is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 3,384 people and just one neighborhood, Manassa - Antonito is the 107th largest community in Colorado.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Manassa - Antonito is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.50% of the Manassa - Antonito workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Manassa - Antonito is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Manassa - Antonito who work in management occupations (10.83%), office and administrative support (10.47%), and farm management occupations (9.80%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Manassa - Antonito work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
A relatively large number of people in Manassa - Antonito telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.60% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Manassa - Antonito doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The citizens of Manassa - Antonito are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.95% of adults in Manassa - Antonito have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Manassa - Antonito in 2022 was $30,194, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $120,776 for a family of four. However, Manassa - Antonito contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Manassa - Antonito is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Manassa - Antonito 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 Manassa - Antonito, accounting for 58.86% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Manassa - Antonito residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Manassa - Antonito include German, English, British, Irish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Manassa - Antonito is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.2%) than in 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 2.5% have Danish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% 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 Manassa - Antonito are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.1% 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, 29.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 14.5% 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 English, spoken by 60.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Manassa - Antonito, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (27.5%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report German roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some British ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 (38.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (64.4%) 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 (26.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.