About Inverness

Inverness is a very small coastal town (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 1,422 people and just one neighborhood, Inverness is the 652nd largest community in California.

Inverness is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.80% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Inverness is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Inverness who work in management occupations (26.52%), teaching (10.69%), and art, media and design (9.34%).

Of important note, Inverness is also a town of artists. Inverness has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Inverness's character.

A relatively large number of people in Inverness telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.25% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Because of many things, Inverness is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Inverness really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Inverness perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One of the nice things about Inverness is that is it nautical, meaning that parts of the town are somewhat historic and on the ocean, or touch tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Because of this, visitors and locals will often go to these areas to take in the scenery or to enjoy waterfront activities. This is definately true of Inverness, which supports a strong tourist economy.

One downside of living in Inverness, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 43.17 minutes every day commuting to work. It is, however, a pedestrian-friendly town. Many of its neighborhoods are dense enough and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

Being a small town, Inverness does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Inverness Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Inverness is a pretty powerful place. 66.09% of the adults in Inverness have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Inverness in 2000 was $37,340, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $149,360 for a family of four.

The people who call Inverness home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Inverness is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Inverness include English, German, Irish, Italian, Scottish, Russian, French, Polish, and Hungarian.

The most common language spoken in Inverness is English.