Diamond Bar is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 56,349 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Diamond Bar is the 134th largest community in California.

Diamond Bar is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 87.29% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Diamond Bar is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Diamond Bar who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.34%), sales jobs (15.77%), and management occupations (13.99%).

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

In addition, Diamond Bar is a college town. There are a lot of students in Diamond Bar attending college, and as a result Diamond Bar provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students.

In addition, Diamond Bar is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates," which are people who are not only wealthy and employed in professional occupations, but highly educated to boot. Urban sophisticates have urbane tastes - whether they reside in a big or small city, a suburb, or a little town. Urban sophisticates support bookstores, quality clothing stores, enjoy luxury travel, and in big cities, they are truly the patrons of the arts, attending and supporting institutions such as opera, symphony, ballet, and theatre.

Because of many things, Diamond Bar is a great place for families with children to consider. First of all, many other families with children live here, making Diamond Bar a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families, as well as find family-oriented services and community. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic values. With regard to real estate, Diamond Bar has a high rate of owner-occupied single family homes, which tends to reflect stability in the local community. Finally, Diamond Bar's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

In Diamond Bar, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 34.71 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

"If you live in Diamond Bar, you are going to have to drive to get to work," say area residents. At least that is what most Diamond Bar residents do (96.7%). Diamond Bar is primarily built for cars, and driving around town will bare this out. Shopping centers, parking lots, strip malls, and wide streets are what you'll find. Sidewalks? Sure. But not everywhere, and walking to most places can be downright scary.

Diamond Bar Information and Demographics

The citizens of Diamond Bar are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 42.35% of adults in Diamond Bar have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Diamond Bar in 2000 was $25,472, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $101,888 for a family of four. However, Diamond Bar contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Diamond Bar is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Diamond Bar home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Diamond Bar is Asian, followed by White. Diamond Bar also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.64% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Diamond Bar include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Diamond Bar's cultural character, accounting for 38.31% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Diamond Bar 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 Diamond Bar is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Tagalog.