Rio Communities is a very small city located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 4,907 people and just one neighborhood, Rio Communities is the 45th largest community in New Mexico.
Unlike some cities, Rio Communities isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Rio Communities are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Rio Communities is a city of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Rio Communities who work in office and administrative support (11.94%), healthcare (9.83%), and personal care services (9.35%).
It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Rio Communities has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Rio Communities has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Rio Communities than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Rio Communities may be for you.
The education level of Rio Communities citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 18.18% of adults 25 and older in Rio Communities have a college degree.
The per capita income in Rio Communities in 2022 was $25,143, 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 $100,572 for a family of four. However, Rio Communities contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Rio Communities is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Rio Communities 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 Rio Communities, accounting for 46.92% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Rio Communities residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rio Communities include German, English, Irish, Danish, and Hungarian.
The most common language spoken in Rio Communities is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 94.1% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.2% of all American neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry and 2.6% have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Rio Communities are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 36.4% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.5%), and 14.2% 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 87.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Rio Communities, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (25.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (10.8%), and residents who report Spanish roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.1%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (8.1%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (30.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (94.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.