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Pinehill, NM

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Overview


Pinehill is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 586 people and just one neighborhood, Pinehill is the 132nd largest community in New Mexico.

Occupations and Workforce

Pinehill is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 96.75% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pinehill is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pinehill who work in management occupations (21.95%), healthcare suport services (16.26%), and office and administrative support (13.01%).

Also of interest is that Pinehill has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Pinehill spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.26 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

As is often the case in a small town, Pinehill doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Pinehill is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 26.45% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Pinehill in 2022 was $22,206, 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 $88,824 for a family of four. However, Pinehill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Pinehill also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 46.80% of its population below the federal poverty line.

The people who call Pinehill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pinehill residents report their race to be Native American, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pinehill include German, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

The most common language spoken in Pinehill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and Native American languages.

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

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.0% 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

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 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 36.0% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 96.7% 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.

People

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 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 79.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 59.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Pinehill are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.3% 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, 30.5% 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 24.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.2%), and 21.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 Native American languages, spoken by 59.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.

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 Pinehill, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (79.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (8.9%), and residents who report German roots (7.0%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.0%), along with some British ancestry residents (1.1%), among others.

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (47.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (9.5%) . 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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