Santo Domingo Pueblo is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 2,311 people and just one neighborhood, Santo Domingo Pueblo is the 70th largest community in New Mexico.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Santo Domingo Pueblo is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 39.97% of the Santo Domingo Pueblo workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Santo Domingo Pueblo is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Santo Domingo Pueblo who work in sales jobs (12.66%), office and administrative support (10.03%), and food service (9.65%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 11.43% 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.
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!) Santo Domingo Pueblo 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. Santo Domingo Pueblo has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Santo Domingo Pueblo than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Santo Domingo Pueblo may be for you.
One downside of living in Santo Domingo Pueblo, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.84 minutes every day commuting to work.
In terms of college education, Santo Domingo Pueblo ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.45% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Santo Domingo Pueblo in 2022 was $17,279, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,116 for a family of four. However, Santo Domingo Pueblo contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Santo Domingo Pueblo is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Santo Domingo Pueblo home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Santo Domingo Pueblo residents report their race to be Native American. Santo Domingo Pueblo also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.50% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Santo Domingo Pueblo include Other Subsaharan African, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
The most common language spoken in Santo Domingo Pueblo is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include English and Navajo.
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 is unique for having just 6.6% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.6% of America's neighborhoods.
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 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Dominican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 62.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 27.2% have Dominican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 76.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. This is a higher percentage than 100.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 98.8% 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.
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 Santo Domingo Pueblo are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% 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, 33.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (23.0%), and 15.1% in executive, management, and professional 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 Native American languages, spoken by 76.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.
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 Santo Domingo Pueblo, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (62.1%). There are also a number of people of Dominican ancestry (27.2%), and residents who report Spanish roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (2.7%), along with some Sub-Saharan African ancestry residents (2.4%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.3% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (67.9%) 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 (11.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.