Winterhaven is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 390 people and just one neighborhood, Winterhaven is the 807th largest community in California.
When you are in Winterhaven, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 0.00% of Winterhaven’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Winterhaven is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Winterhaven who work in office and administrative support (0.00%), sales jobs (0.00%), and personal care services (0.00%).
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!) Winterhaven 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. Winterhaven has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Winterhaven than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Winterhaven may be for you.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Winterhaven spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 0.00 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
Winterhaven 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.
Winterhaven ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Winterhaven in 2022 was $15,164, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,656 for a family of four. Winterhaven also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 73.58% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Winterhaven is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Winterhaven 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 Winterhaven, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Winterhaven residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Winterhaven include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Winterhaven also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 73.58%.
The most common language spoken in Winterhaven is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
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.
From major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 99.6% of all American neighborhoods.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 45.5%, which is higher than 98.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.0% of all neighborhoods in America, with 36.7% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
One of the unique characteristics of the neighborhood revealed by analysis is that the per capita income of residents here is lower than that found in 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Also of note, 58.3% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Native American and Austrian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 51.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Native American ancestry and 1.5% have Austrian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Winterhaven are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.4% 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, 52.2% 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 clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 17.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (15.7%), and 13.1% in manufacturing and laborer 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 85.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
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 Winterhaven, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Native American (51.8%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (22.1%), and residents who report German roots (5.2%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (1.7%), along with some Austrian ancestry residents (1.5%), 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 (54.6% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (81.2%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.