Portola - Beckwourth is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,788 people and just one neighborhood, Portola - Beckwourth is the 528th largest community in California.
Unlike some towns, Portola - Beckwourth isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Portola - Beckwourth are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Portola - Beckwourth is a town of service providers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Portola - Beckwourth who work in management occupations (14.81%), food service (14.22%), and office and administrative support (6.18%).
Of important note, Portola - Beckwourth is also a town of artists. Portola - Beckwourth has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Portola - Beckwourth’s character.
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!) Portola - Beckwourth 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. Portola - Beckwourth has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Portola - Beckwourth than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Portola - Beckwourth may be for you.
Portola - Beckwourth is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Portola - Beckwourth are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.17% of adults in Portola - Beckwourth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Portola - Beckwourth in 2022 was $35,154, 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 $140,616 for a family of four. However, Portola - Beckwourth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Portola - Beckwourth is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Portola - Beckwourth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Portola - Beckwourth residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Portola - Beckwourth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Portola - Beckwourth include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Portola - Beckwourth is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 12.4% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 96.2% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 5.0% have Swedish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% 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 Portola - Beckwourth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.7% 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, 31.0% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.6%), and 11.8% 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 89.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and German/Yiddish.
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 Portola - Beckwourth, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.9%), 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 (52.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (68.8%) 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%) and 12.4% 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.