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Cannon Air Force Base, NM

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Overview


Cannon Air Force Base is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,978 people and just one neighborhood, Cannon Air Force Base is the 78th largest community in New Mexico. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Cannon Air Force Base, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Cannon Air Force Base, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Cannon Air Force Base’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Cannon Air Force Base does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $56,786.00.

Occupations and Workforce

The armed forces are a huge part of the life in Cannon Air Force Base, employing 34.56% of the workforce. While it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy, where the Healthcare and Accommodation industries employ 27.46% and 15.85% of the civilian workforce, respectively.

Of important note, Cannon Air Force Base is also a town of artists. Cannon Air Force Base has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cannon Air Force Base’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

One of the benefits of Cannon Air Force Base is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 9.99 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, Cannon Air Force Base does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Cannon Air Force Base is one of the most well-educated cities in the nation. 41.96% of adults in Cannon Air Force Base have at least a bachelor's degree. Compare that to the average community in America, which has just 21.84% with a bachelor's degree or higher.

The per capita income in Cannon Air Force Base in 2022 was $24,618, 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 $98,472 for a family of four. However, Cannon Air Force Base contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cannon Air Force Base is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cannon Air Force Base home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cannon Air Force Base residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cannon Air Force Base also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 25.35% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cannon Air Force Base include Irish, German, English, Italian, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Cannon Air Force Base is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Cannon Air Force Base, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Length of Commute

Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 87.1% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Occupations

The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 99.9% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.

Furthermore, the neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Real Estate

100.0% of the real estate in the neighborhood is occupied by renters, which is nearly the highest rate of renter occupancy of any neighborhood in America.

In addition, many people dream of living along a street lined with row houses or other attached homes. Such places do often have an abundance of charm. If you are one of these people, the neighborhood could be your paradise. With 55.4% of the homes and real estate here classified as rowhouses or other attached homes, this neighborhood brims with opportunity to find the right place for you. Only 0.9% of U.S. neighborhoods have more row houses than this neighborhood, making it one of the most interesting things about this special neighborhood.

Furthermore, homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 97.1% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 77.8% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (16.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Significantly, 11.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Cannon Air Force Base are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.5% 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 69.8% 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, 34.6% of the working population is employed in the military. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 33.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (31.0%), and 23.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 84.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian, Spanish and Polish.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Cannon Air Force Base, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (16.6%), and residents who report German roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.0%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.

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 (87.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (62.0%) 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 (21.4%) and 16.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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