Elida is a tiny town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 156 people and just one neighborhood, Elida is the 156th largest community in New Mexico.
Elida is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elida is a town of managers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elida who work in management occupations (36.49%), sales jobs (12.16%), and business and financial occupations (8.11%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.22% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
Overall, Elida’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Elida 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. Elida has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Elida than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Elida may be for you.
One downside of living in Elida, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.94 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Elida doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The percentage of adults in Elida who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.57% of the adults in Elida have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Elida in 2022 was $75,758, which is wealthy relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $303,032 for a family of four. However, Elida contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Elida is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elida home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Elida residents report their race to be White. Elida also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.77% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Elida include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Portuguese.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Elida's cultural character, accounting for 15.23% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Elida is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Elida, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 3 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Furthermore, with 1.7% 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 95.5% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (2.0%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, of note, 58.3% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 0.9% have Brazilian ancestry.
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 Elida are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 84.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.6% 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, 32.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.1%), and 16.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 67.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (32.9%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Elida, NM, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (43.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.2%), and residents who report English roots (8.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.2%), along with some Spanish ancestry residents (3.1%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (35.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (8.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.