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Lochbuie is a somewhat small town located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 8,179 people and just one neighborhood, Lochbuie is the 62nd largest community in Colorado. Lochbuie has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Lochbuie, where the median household income is $84,556.00.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Lochbuie, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 39.34% of Lochbuie’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lochbuie is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lochbuie who work in management occupations (15.07%), office and administrative support (10.53%), and sales jobs (8.06%).
Setting & Lifestyle
In Lochbuie, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.33 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Lochbuie doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Lochbuie are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.57% of adults in Lochbuie have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Lochbuie in 2022 was $34,226, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $136,904 for a family of four. However, Lochbuie contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lochbuie is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Lochbuie 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 Lochbuie, accounting for 55.31% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Lochbuie residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Lochbuie include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Russian.
The most common language spoken in Lochbuie is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Real Estate
If you like the look and ambience of new homes and newly built neighborhoods, you will love the neighborhood. A whopping 67.9% of the homes and other residential real estate here were built after 1999, which is a higher proportion of new homes then you will find in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Everything here just feels new.
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 Lochbuie are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 63.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.7% 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 68.8% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 38.0% 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 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (19.7%), and 12.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 70.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (29.8%).
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 Lochbuie, CO, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (46.7%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.1%), and residents who report German roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 11.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (42.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (83.9%) 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 (12.1%) . 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.
