Elk Grove is a larger medium-sized coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 60,255 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Elk Grove is the 116th largest community in California.

Elk Grove is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Elk Grove is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Elk Grove who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.37%), sales jobs (10.95%), and management occupations (9.20%).

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

The town is also nautical, which means that parts of Elk Grove are somewhat historic and touch the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Quite often, nautical areas such as these attract visitors and locals who come to enjoy the scenery and various waterfront activities.

The town of Elk Grove is a decent size, but despite this, it doesn't have a viable public transit system that people can use to get to work.

Elk Grove Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Elk Grove is somewhat better educated than the 14.96% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 24.13% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Elk Grove in 2000 was $20,916, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $83,664 for a family of four. However, Elk Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Elk Grove is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Elk Grove home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Elk Grove is White, followed by Asian. Elk Grove also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.88% of the town's residents. Important ancestries of people in Elk Grove include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Elk Grove's cultural character, accounting for 16.34% of the town's population.

The languages spoken by people in Elk Grove 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 Elk Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Vietnamese, Tagalog, and Chinese.