Yatahey is a somewhat small town located in the state of New Mexico. With a population of 5,905 people and three associated neighborhoods, Yatahey is the 37th largest community in New Mexico.Yatahey is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Yatahey is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yatahey who work in office and administrative support (17.99%), management occupations (14.52%), and food service (8.93%). Overall, Yatahey’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!) Yatahey 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. Yatahey has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Yatahey than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Yatahey may be for you. Being a small town, Yatahey does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.In terms of college education, Yatahey ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 2.80% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Yatahey in 2022 was $15,538, which is low income relative to New Mexico and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $62,152 for a family of four. However, Yatahey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Yatahey also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.77% of its population below the federal poverty line. The people who call Yatahey home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Yatahey residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Yatahey also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.30% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Yatahey include English, European, Dutch, Italian, and Scots-Irish. The most common language spoken in Yatahey is Navajo. Other important languages spoken here include English and Native American languages.
