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Guadalupe, AZ

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Overview


Guadalupe is a somewhat small town located in the state of Arizona. With a population of 5,217 people and just one neighborhood, Guadalupe is the 71st largest community in Arizona.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Guadalupe isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Guadalupe are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Guadalupe is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Guadalupe who work in maintenance occupations (13.27%), office and administrative support (12.64%), and sales jobs (9.68%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The percentage of people in Guadalupe with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.57% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Guadalupe in 2022 was $25,954, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $103,816 for a family of four. However, Guadalupe contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Guadalupe is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Guadalupe home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Guadalupe, accounting for 78.18% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Guadalupe residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Guadalupe include European, Polish, Irish, Syrian, and German.

The most common language spoken in Guadalupe is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Guadalupe, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.7%) 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.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 15.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 75.5% have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.9% 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 99.4% 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 Guadalupe are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 38.3% 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (18.8%), and 16.7% 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 Spanish, spoken by 51.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.

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 Guadalupe, AZ, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.5%). There are also a number of people of Native American ancestry (15.9%), and residents who report Dominican roots (1.5%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.1%).

Getting to Work

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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (70.5%) 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 (15.5%) and 7.1% 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.


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