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San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill, CA

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Overview


San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,302 people and just one neighborhood, San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill is the 551st largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill who work in law enforcement and fire fighting (19.14%), healthcare suport services (7.54%), and sales jobs (7.32%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.66% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

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

One downside of living in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.45 minutes every day commuting to work.

Demographics

The education level of San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.04% of adults in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill in 2018 was $26,865, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $107,460 for a family of four. However, San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.48% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 99.8% 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.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 12.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and English ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 21.3% have English ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 18.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.6% of U.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, 32.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions, with 28.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (26.8%), and 26.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

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 89.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 San Andreas - Mokelumne Hill, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (21.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (20.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (19.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.7%), among others.

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 (29.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (77.6%) 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 (7.8%) . 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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