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Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
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White Mountain Lake is a very small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 2,335 people and just one neighborhood, White Mountain Lake is the 119th largest community in Arizona.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, White Mountain Lake is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.06% of the White Mountain Lake workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, White Mountain Lake is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in White Mountain Lake who work in sales jobs (22.86%), office and administrative support (19.35%), and business and financial occupations (6.62%).
Also of interest is that White Mountain Lake has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Setting & Lifestyle
Another notable thing is that White Mountain Lake is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
White Mountain Lake’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, White Mountain Lake has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes White Mountain Lake a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in White Mountain Lake is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In White Mountain Lake, the average commute to work is 33.68 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, White Mountain Lake does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The citizens of White Mountain Lake are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.72% of adults in White Mountain Lake have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in White Mountain Lake in 2022 was $19,235, which is low income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $76,940 for a family of four. However, White Mountain Lake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. White Mountain Lake also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.61% of its population below the federal poverty line.
White Mountain Lake is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call White Mountain Lake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of White Mountain Lake residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. White Mountain Lake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.47% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in White Mountain Lake include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in White Mountain Lake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Real Estate
The neighborhood stands out for having the majority of its residential real estate made up of mobile homes. In fact, 55.1% of the occupied real estate here are mobile homes, which is a greater proportion than is found in 99.4% 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, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 38.6% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 97.3% 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.
Furthermore, 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 93.8% 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, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 White Mountain Lake are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 51.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.5% 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, 32.2% 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 25.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.4%), and 17.1% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 English, spoken by 86.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in White Mountain Lake, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (24.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (18.8%), and residents who report English roots (14.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.3%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (8.3%), 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.1%) 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 (12.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
