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Texico, NM

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Overview


Texico is a tiny city located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 927 people and just one neighborhood, Texico is the 111th largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Texico is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.00% of the Texico workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Texico is a city of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Texico who work in management occupations (13.56%), office and administrative support (12.64%), and farm management occupations (8.51%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Texico 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.

Also of interest is that Texico has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Texico 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. Texico has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Texico than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Texico may be for you.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 19.09 minutes getting to work every day.

Being a small city, Texico does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The population of Texico has a very low overall level of education: only 8.96% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Texico in 2018 was $26,023, 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 $104,092 for a family of four. However, Texico contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Texico is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Texico 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 Texico, accounting for 55.67% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Texico residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Texico include German, Irish, Polish, English, and French.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Texico's cultural character, accounting for 21.53% of the city’s population.

The most common language spoken in Texico is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.4% of all neighborhoods in America, with 31.0% 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.

In addition, this neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.

People

The neighborhood is a great option for families, as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's research on this neighborhood. The combination of top public schools, low crime rates, and owner-occupied single family homes, make this neighborhood among the top 9.6% of family-friendly neighborhoods in the state of New Mexico. Many other families also live here, making it easy to socialize and develop a sense of community. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Croatian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 1.1% have Croatian ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 Texico are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.3% 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, 31.7% 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 27.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (26.6%), and 11.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (31.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Texico, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (14.3%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 12.3% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (87.2%) 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 (10.8%) . 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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