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Montgomery Creek, CA

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Overview


Montgomery Creek is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 176 people and just one neighborhood, Montgomery Creek is the 842nd largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Montgomery Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery Creek is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery Creek who work in office and administrative support (32.95%), healthcare (26.14%), and healthcare suport services (17.05%).

A relatively large number of people in Montgomery Creek telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 14.77% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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

In Montgomery Creek, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.50 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Demographics

The overall education level of Montgomery Creek is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 27.80% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Montgomery Creek in 2022 was $44,600, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $178,400 for a family of four. However, Montgomery Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Montgomery Creek is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Montgomery Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Montgomery Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.71% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery Creek include Swiss, English, Irish, German, and Australian.

In addition, Montgomery Creek has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (25.70%).

The most common language spoken in Montgomery Creek is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Of particular note, 5.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 2.3% have Native American ancestry.

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 Montgomery Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.3% 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.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 40.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.9%), and 17.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.0% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.3%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Montgomery Creek, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (15.6%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.5%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.6%), among others. In addition, 10.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (37.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (64.0%) 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 (19.4%) and 6.3% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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