La Habra Heights is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 5,402 people and two constituent neighborhoods, La Habra Heights is the 517th largest community in California.

La Habra Heights is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.90% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, La Habra Heights is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Habra Heights who work in management occupations (17.85%), sales jobs (12.51%), and office and administrative support jobs (9.81%).

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

A relatively large number of people in La Habra Heights telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.55% 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.

In addition, La Habra Heights 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.

La Habra Heights is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The city's good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, La Habra Heights's overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

One downside of living in La Habra Heights, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.09 minutes every day commuting to work.

La Habra Heights is a very car-oriented city. 97.8% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because La Habra Heights is a small city, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. La Habra Heights has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

La Habra Heights is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

La Habra Heights Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, La Habra Heights is a pretty powerful place. 49.22% of the adults in La Habra Heights 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 La Habra Heights in 2000 was $47,258, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $189,032 for a family of four. However, La Habra Heights contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

La Habra Heights is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Habra Heights home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in La Habra Heights is White, followed by Asian. La Habra Heights also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.61% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in La Habra Heights include German, English, Irish, Armenian, and Italian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of La Habra Heights's cultural character, accounting for 22.08% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in La Habra Heights 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 La Habra Heights is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, Korean, and Hindi.