Murphys is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,995 people and just one neighborhood, Murphys is the 669th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Murphys are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Murphys is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Murphys is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Murphys who work in management occupations (16.56%), sales jobs (14.09%), and personal care services (8.82%).
Of important note, Murphys is also a town of artists. Murphys has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Murphys’s character.
A relatively large number of people in Murphys telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 10.06% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Murphys has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Murphys a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Murphys does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The overall education level of Murphys citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.89% of adults in Murphys have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Murphys in 2022 was $43,689, 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 $174,756 for a family of four. However, Murphys contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Murphys home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Murphys residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Murphys include Irish, English, German, Swedish, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Murphys is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.9%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.6% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in California, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in California.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 3.1% have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 6.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Murphys are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 8.2% 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 54.7% of America's neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 43.8% 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 24.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.0%), and 8.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 92.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Murphys, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (18.8%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.3%), and residents who report German roots (14.1%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (4.9%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (77.5%) 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 (14.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.