Cypress is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 46,534 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Cypress is the 170th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Cypress is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Cypress is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cypress who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.48%), management occupations (12.34%), and sales jobs (11.47%).

Also of interest is that Cypress has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Cypress is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Cypress is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Cypress Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Cypress citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.20% of adults in Cypress have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Cypress in 2000 was $25,798, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $103,192 for a family of four. However, Cypress contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cypress is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cypress home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cypress is White, followed by Asian. Cypress also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.95% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Cypress include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

In addition, Cypress has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.26%).

The languages spoken by people in Cypress are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Cypress is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean, Chinese, and Tagalog.