Yatahey’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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!) Yatahey 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. Yatahey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yatahey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yatahey may be for you.
Being a small town, Yatahey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Yatahey has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.80% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Yatahey in 2022 was $15,538, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,152 for a family of four. However, Yatahey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Yatahey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.77% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Yatahey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yatahey residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Yatahey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.30% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Yatahey include English, European, Dutch, Italian, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Yatahey is Navajo. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.
