Las Cruces is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 113,888 people and 40 associated neighborhoods, Las Cruces is the second largest community in New Mexico.Las Cruces is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Las Cruces is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Las Cruces who work in office and administrative support (11.42%), teaching (10.24%), and sales jobs (8.81%). Also of interest is that Las Cruces has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.66% 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. Las Cruces is made interesting by being both a reasonably big city and having a major college student population: students here will find that the city provides a lot of amenities, culture, and opportunities for them. Las Cruces is more than just a college town, however, though the thousands of students certainly are a major part of the character of the city, as well as a contributor to the local economy. The citizens of Las Cruces are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 36.30% of adults in Las Cruces have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Las Cruces in 2022 was $28,239, which is middle income relative to New Mexico, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $112,956 for a family of four. However, Las Cruces contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Las Cruces is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Las Cruces 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 Las Cruces, accounting for 61.73% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Las Cruces residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Las Cruces include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French. The most common language spoken in Las Cruces is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Arabic.
