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Sanford - La Jara, CO

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Overview


Sanford - La Jara is a very small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 4,169 people and just one neighborhood, Sanford - La Jara is the 99th largest community in Colorado.

Occupations and Workforce

Sanford - La Jara is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sanford - La Jara is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sanford - La Jara who work in office and administrative support (18.80%), management occupations (12.21%), and teaching (9.43%).

A relatively large number of people in Sanford - La Jara telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.18% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Because of many things, Sanford - La Jara is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Sanford - La Jara a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Sanford - La Jara has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Sanford - La Jara’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

Being a small town, Sanford - La Jara does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The overall education level of Sanford - La Jara is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 28.32% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Sanford - La Jara in 2018 was $23,856, which is low income relative to Colorado and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,424 for a family of four. However, Sanford - La Jara contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Sanford - La Jara is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Sanford - La Jara home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sanford - La Jara residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Sanford - La Jara also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 43.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sanford - La Jara include German, English, Irish, Danish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Sanford - La Jara is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

In addition, vacant homes and apartments are a significant characteristic of this neighborhood. In fact, with 30.9% of the residential real estate vacant, the neighborhood claims the distinction of having a higher vacancy rate than 95.1% 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Danish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Danish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Sanford - La Jara are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 17.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 64.6% 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, 35.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 21.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (21.4%), and 20.4% in manufacturing and laborer 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 78.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and German/Yiddish.

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 Sanford - La Jara, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (21.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.3%), and residents who report Spanish roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (13.4%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.3%), 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 (36.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (66.0%) 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 (13.4%) . 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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