Fullerton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 126,246 people and 27 constituent neighborhoods, Fullerton is the 38th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Fullerton is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Fullerton is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fullerton who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.02%), sales jobs (12.51%), and management occupations (11.15%).

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

Combining city textures and college town sensibilities, Fullerton really has a nice blend of characteristics. While not a huge city, Fullerton is big enough to offer a healthy dose of diversion, opportunity, and amenity to its residents and to the thousands of college students who descend on it every fall. Its size and diversity makes Fullerton more than just a college town, but removing the students from the equation would undeniably change Fullerton's character and quality of life.

In addition, Fullerton 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.

Fullerton Information and Demographics

The education level of Fullerton citizens is substantially higher than the average US city or town, as 31.29% of adults in Fullerton have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fullerton in 2000 was $23,370, which is upper middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,480 for a family of four.

Fullerton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fullerton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fullerton is White, followed by Asian. Fullerton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.31% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Fullerton include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Fullerton's cultural character, accounting for 28.86% of the city's population.

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