Tipton is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,519 people and just one neighborhood, Tipton is the 635th largest community in California.
Tipton is a blue-collar town, with 56.09% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Tipton is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tipton who work in farm management occupations (35.96%), sales jobs (11.12%), and office and administrative support (8.36%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Tipton work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Of important note, Tipton is also a town of artists. Tipton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Tipton’s character.
Being a small town, Tipton does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Tipton ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.05% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Tipton in 2022 was $17,380, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $69,520 for a family of four. However, Tipton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Tipton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tipton 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 Tipton, accounting for 93.14% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tipton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Tipton include German, Portuguese, French, Austrian, and Yugoslavian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Tipton's cultural character, accounting for 47.94% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Tipton is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.
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 Tipton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 35.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 95.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 34 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.9% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 85.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 3.4% have Portuguese ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 84.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Tipton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.5% of U.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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. 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 19.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (18.9%), and 14.0% in executive, management, and professional 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 Spanish, spoken by 84.7% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.
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 Tipton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.3%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (3.5%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (2.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (1.6%), among others. In addition, 41.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (47.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.4%) 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 (9.6%) and 7.4% 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.