Goshen is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,968 people and just one neighborhood, Goshen is the 526th largest community in California. Much of the housing stock in Goshen was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Goshen economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Goshen, where the median household income is $72,813.00.
When you are in Goshen, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 57.06% of Goshen’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Goshen is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Goshen who work in farm management occupations (17.86%), food service (7.18%), and office and administrative support (6.89%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.76% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Being a small town, Goshen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Goshen, just 12.31% of people have at least a bachelor's degree, which is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%.
The per capita income in Goshen in 2022 was $21,383, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,532 for a family of four. However, Goshen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Goshen is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Goshen 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 Goshen, accounting for 73.50% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Goshen residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Goshen include English, Irish, German, Norwegian, and Italian.
Goshen also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 33.32%.
The most common language spoken in Goshen is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Asian languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 16.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (22.5%) than in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 69.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Goshen are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.4% 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, 38.1% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (16.7%), and 11.9% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 53.5% of households. Some people also speak English (44.5%).
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 Goshen, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (69.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (2.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.9%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (1.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 33.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (65.9%) 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 (22.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.