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Helendale, CA

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Overview


Helendale is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 6,305 people and just one neighborhood, Helendale is the 484th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Helendale is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Helendale is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Helendale who work in office and administrative support (17.68%), teaching (9.13%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (8.08%).

Also of interest is that Helendale has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Helendale 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. Helendale has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Helendale than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Helendale may be for you.

One downside of living in Helendale, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.70 minutes every day commuting to work.

As is often the case in a small town, Helendale doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Helendale are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.72% of adults in Helendale having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Helendale in 2018 was $43,661, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $174,644 for a family of four. However, Helendale contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Helendale is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Helendale home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Helendale residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Helendale also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 23.01% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Helendale include German, Irish, English, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Helendale is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

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.

People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 12.7% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of California. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.

Modes of Transportation

Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (23.6%) than in 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Significantly, 1.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Helendale are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% 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 100.0% of America'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, 35.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.4%), and 18.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 77.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Helendale, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (20.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.2%), among others. In addition, 13.0% 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 (30.9% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (69.4%) 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 (23.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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