About Isleton

Isleton is a tiny coastal city (ie. on the ocean or tidally-influenced rivers) located in the state of California. With a population of 803 people and just one neighborhood, Isleton is the 691st largest community in California.

Isleton is a blue-collar town, with 36.2% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 24.7%. Overall, Isleton is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Isleton who work in office and administrative support jobs (17.18%), food service (16.87%), and teaching (5.83%).

The city is also nautical, which means that parts of Isleton are somewhat historic and bounded by the ocean or tidal bodies of water, such as inlets and tidal rivers. Such areas are often places that visitors and locals go for waterfront activities or taking in the scenery.

In Isleton, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.59 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average. However, the city is also quite pedestrian-friendly, because many neighborhoods are very dense and have amenities close enough together that people find it feasible to get around on foot.

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

Isleton Information and Demographics

The percentage of people in Isleton with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 14.96%: just 11.57% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Isleton in 2000 was $19,767, 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 $79,068 for a family of four.

Isleton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Isleton home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Isleton is White, followed by Asian. Isleton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.14% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Isleton include Portuguese, German, Irish, English, and Italian.

In addition, Isleton has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.30%).

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