Hatch is a very small village located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,558 people and just one neighborhood, Hatch is the 93rd largest community in New Mexico.
Hatch is a blue-collar town, with 45.93% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Hatch is a village of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Hatch who work in farm management occupations (15.26%), management occupations (9.93%), and healthcare suport services (8.44%).
In addition, many people in Hatch have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Hatch is a small village, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Hatch are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.42% of adults in Hatch have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Hatch in 2022 was $20,060, which is lower middle income relative to New Mexico, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,240 for a family of four. However, Hatch contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hatch is an extremely ethnically-diverse village. The people who call Hatch 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 Hatch, accounting for 84.40% of the village’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hatch residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Hatch include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Austrian.
In addition, Hatch has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.28%).
The most common language spoken in Hatch is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 26.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.5% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.8% of all American neighborhoods.
The neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.9% of the neighborhoods in the United States.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 81.8% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 78.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Do you like to be surrounded by people from all over the country or world, with different perspectives and life experiences? Or do you instead prefer to be in a neighborhood where most residents have lived there for a long time, creating a sense of cohesiveness? NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood stands out among American neighborhoods for the uniqueness of the mobility of its residents. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.
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 Hatch are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 49.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.7% 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, 33.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 26.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (21.5%), and 9.4% 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 Spanish, spoken by 78.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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 Hatch, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (81.8%). There are also a number of people of British ancestry (4.4%), and residents who report Spanish roots (4.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.1%), among others. In addition, 31.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (45.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (91.5%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.