Gamerco is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,343 people and just one neighborhood, Gamerco is the 101st largest community in New Mexico.
Unlike some towns, Gamerco isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Gamerco are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Gamerco is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gamerco who work in food service (36.89%), office and administrative support (23.62%), and sales jobs (13.92%).
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, Gamerco has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Gamerco a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One of the benefits of Gamerco is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.97 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Gamerco does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Gamerco ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 3.35% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gamerco in 2022 was $14,455, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $57,820 for a family of four. However, Gamerco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gamerco also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 49.44% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Gamerco is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gamerco 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 Gamerco, accounting for 65.41% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gamerco residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Gamerco include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
The most common language spoken in Gamerco is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.
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.
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 52.2% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.2% 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.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.9% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 96.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 96.1% of all American neighborhoods.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (0.7%) living in the neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 25.5% 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 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gamerco are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 76.0% 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, 39.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 32.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.7%), and 10.0% in manufacturing and laborer 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 43.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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 Gamerco, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (48.9%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (32.0%), and residents who report Spanish roots (11.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.5%), along with some Arab ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (55.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (62.2%) 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 (23.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.