Bloomfield is a somewhat small city located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 7,335 people and three associated neighborhoods, Bloomfield is the 30th largest community in New Mexico.Bloomfield is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bloomfield is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Bloomfield who work in sales jobs (15.88%), management occupations (10.07%), and office and administrative support (8.52%). The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Bloomfield has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Bloomfield a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. Being a small city, Bloomfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, the citizens of Bloomfield rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.25% of adults 25 and older in Bloomfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community. The per capita income in Bloomfield in 2022 was $23,513, which is lower middle income relative to New Mexico, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,052 for a family of four. However, Bloomfield contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Bloomfield is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Bloomfield home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bloomfield residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Bloomfield also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.48% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bloomfield include German, Irish, English, Danish, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Bloomfield is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Navajo.
