Cannon Air Force Base is a very small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 1,978 people and just one neighborhood, Cannon Air Force Base is the 78th largest community in New Mexico. Much of the housing stock in Cannon Air Force Base was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Cannon Air Force Base economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Cannon Air Force Base, where the median household income is $67,132.00.
33.44% of the workforce is employed in the armed forces, making the military a huge focus of life in Cannon Air Force Base. Even though it is a military town, the civilian sector still plays an important role in the local economy. The Healthcare and Accommodation industries respectively employ 26.40% and 21.07% of the civilian workforce.
Of important note, Cannon Air Force Base is also a town of artists. Cannon Air Force Base has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cannon Air Force Base’s character.
Also of interest is that Cannon Air Force Base has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 9.81 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Cannon Air Force Base doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Cannon Air Force Base is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 33.55% of adults in Cannon Air Force Base have a college degree.
The per capita income in Cannon Air Force Base in 2022 was $25,652, which is middle income relative to New Mexico, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,608 for a family of four. However, Cannon Air Force Base contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cannon Air Force Base is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cannon Air Force Base home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Cannon Air Force Base residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Cannon Air Force Base also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.37% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Cannon Air Force Base include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.
The most common language spoken in Cannon Air Force Base is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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.
With 33.4% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 99.8% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (60.7%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
Whether walking, biking, riding, or driving, the length of one's commute is an important factor for one's quality of life. The neighborhood stands out for its commute length, according to NeighborhoodScout's analysis. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 85.6% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Renter-occupied real estate is dominant in the neighborhood. The percentage of rental real estate here, according to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, is 100.0%, which is higher than 99.3% of the neighborhoods in America. If you were to buy and live in the property you bought here, you would be almost alone in doing so.
In addition, if you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 51.6% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Furthermore, homes built from 2000 through today make up a higher proportion of the neighborhood's real estate landscape than 96.7% of the neighborhoods in America. When you are driving around this neighborhood, you'll notice right away that it is one of the newest built of any, with the smell of fresh paint, and the look of young landscaping nearly everywhere you look. In fact, 76.9% of the residential real estate here is classified as newer.
In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 14.2% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 96.9% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 12.8% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.0%) living in the neighborhood.
Also, with a nice mix of college students, safety from crime, and decent walkability, the neighborhood rates highly as a college student friendly place to live, and one that college students and their parents may want to consider. NeighborhoodScout's analysis shows that it rates more highly for a good place for college students to live than 88.4% of the neighborhoods in NM. This often also means that the area has certain amenities and services geared towards college students, from undergraduates to graduate students.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cannon Air Force Base are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 60.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 9.5% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 51.4% of America'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, 39.3% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 34.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in the military (33.4%), and 14.5% 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 85.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Cannon Air Force Base, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (22.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (19.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (12.3%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (85.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (64.0%) 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 (20.7%) and 14.2% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
