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Solomon, AZ

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Overview


Solomon is a tiny town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 399 people and just one neighborhood, Solomon is the 174th largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Solomon isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Solomon are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Solomon is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Solomon who work in maintenance occupations (18.45%), management occupations (18.45%), and sales jobs (16.50%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.11% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

The overall crime rate in Solomon is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.

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, Solomon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Solomon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Solomon is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The education level of Solomon citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.27% of adults 25 and older in Solomon have a college degree.

The per capita income in Solomon in 2022 was $25,259, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $101,036 for a family of four. However, Solomon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Solomon is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Solomon 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 Solomon, accounting for 73.70% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Solomon residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Solomon include German, English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

The most common language spoken in Solomon 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

Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.8% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.1% 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.

Occupations

More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

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 Solomon are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 67.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.2% 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, 44.0% 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 23.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.6%), and 8.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (16.0%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Solomon, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (32.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.5%), and residents who report German roots (4.9%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.5%).

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (73.8%) 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 (13.3%) . 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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