Chloride is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 229 people and just one neighborhood, Chloride is the 179th largest community in Arizona.
Chloride is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Chloride is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Chloride who work in art, media, and design (35.48%), healthcare (33.87%), and maintenance occupations (14.52%).
Of important note, Chloride is also a town of artists. Chloride has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Chloride’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Chloride telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 35.48% 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.
Chloride’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town 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!) Chloride 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. Chloride has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Chloride than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Chloride may be for you.
Being a small town, Chloride does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Chloride, just 7.32% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Chloride in 2022 was $21,741, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,964 for a family of four. However, Chloride contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chloride also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 45.30% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Chloride home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chloride residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Chloride include French, English, Hungarian, European, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Chloride is English. Other important languages spoken here include West Germanic languages and Langs. of India.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Chloride, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Chloride neighborhood.
In addition, one of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (50.4%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.9% 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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Romanian and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Romanian ancestry and 3.1% have Hungarian ancestry.
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 Chloride are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 96.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 21.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 70.5% 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, 49.6% 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 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (15.5%), and 8.2% 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 91.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Chloride, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (14.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (12.5%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.9%), along with some French ancestry residents (7.3%), 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 (45.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.3%) 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 (14.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.