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Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). Census tracts usually have 4,000 persons, but can range between 1,500 and 8,000 persons. This is the most fine-grained area for which detailed information is made available from the government, to protect the individual privacy of each of us. Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas.
Since census tracts are subdivisions of a county, we did a spatial overlay of the census tracts onto city and town boundaries using a geographic information system to properly assign each census tract to its appropriate city or town. Then we named each census tract to the local colloquially recognized neighborhood name for that spot (e.g., Boston, MA (Dorchester). If there was not a name available, we named the census tract by the largest street intersection in the census tract (e.g., Worcester, MA (Lincoln St/Plantation St)
Why we don't use Zip Codes as neighborhoods
Zip codes were developed by the Postal Service for the purpose of delivering mail, but were never intended to define coherent neighborhoods. In addition, Zip Codes can have as many as 10 distinctly different census tracts contained within them. When distinct census tracts are blended together in a single Zip Code, the data reflects their average conditions and often gives a false sense of the area. The result is that potentially great matching neighborhoods can be missed, and erroneous matches can also be produced and delivered to you.
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What are the risks of violent crime here?
Is the risk of home break-ins or other property crimes increasing?
Does real estate here hold its value?
Are the trends in local vacancies or unemployment concerning?
...and dozens more.
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Salton City is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,155 people and just one neighborhood, Salton City is the 517th largest community in California. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Salton City, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Salton City, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Salton City’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Salton City does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $36,915.00.
Occupations and Workforce
Salton City is a blue-collar town, with 42.07% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Salton City is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salton City who work in maintenance occupations (18.20%), office and administrative support (8.05%), and healthcare suport services (7.47%).
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!) Salton City 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. Salton City has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Salton City than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Salton City may be for you.
One downside of living in Salton City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Salton City, the average commute to work is 32.50 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Salton City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The percentage of people in Salton City with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 10.27% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Salton City in 2022 was $18,503, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,012 for a family of four. However, Salton City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Salton City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Salton City 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 Salton City, accounting for 74.55% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Salton City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Salton City include Irish, English, German, Italian, and Dutch.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Salton City's cultural character, accounting for 25.88% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Salton City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.
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.
Modes of Transportation
While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Occupations
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 5.8% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 97.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
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, 72.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Salton City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 94.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 25.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.0% 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, 37.6% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (16.9%), and 9.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.6% of households. Some people also speak English (36.2%).
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 Salton City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (72.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report German roots (5.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.6%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.9%), among others. In addition, 27.3% 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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (91.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
