El Rito is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 749 people and just one neighborhood, El Rito is the 124th largest community in New Mexico.
El Rito is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 100.00% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, El Rito is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Rito who work in maintenance occupations (58.02%), healthcare (31.30%), and sales jobs (10.69%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.69% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) El Rito 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. El Rito has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in El Rito than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, El Rito may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of El Rito spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 12.76 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
El Rito 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.
The population of El Rito has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.16% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in El Rito in 2022 was $14,154, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $56,616 for a family of four. El Rito also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 63.59% of its population below the federal poverty line.
El Rito is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call El Rito 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 El Rito, accounting for 99.79% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of El Rito residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in El Rito include German, English, Czech, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
El Rito also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.00%.
The most common language spoken in El Rito is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 56.8% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.5% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. If you like mobile homes, this might be a great neighborhood in which to look for real estate.
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 3 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 98.7% of America.
Furthermore, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 34.2% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America. This can either be because much of the property is seasonally occupied, like in many vacation areas, or that much of the real estate is more permanently abandoned.
In the neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 27.9% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.
Significantly, 78.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 El Rito are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 23.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 73.4% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 48.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.4%), and 10.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 78.8% of households. Some people also speak English (19.0%).
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 El Rito, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.0%). There are also a number of people of Spanish ancestry (20.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (2.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.7%), along with some Dominican ancestry residents (1.6%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (63.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (61.6%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.