Los Alamitos is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 11,260 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Los Alamitos is the 403rd largest community in California.

Los Alamitos is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.91% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Los Alamitos is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Los Alamitos who work in office and administrative support jobs (20.00%), sales jobs (11.06%), and management occupations (10.68%).

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

In addition, Los Alamitos 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.

Los Alamitos 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.

Los Alamitos Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Los Alamitos is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 14.96% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.84% of adults in Los Alamitos have a college degree.

The per capita income in Los Alamitos in 2000 was $26,014, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $104,056 for a family of four.

Los Alamitos is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Los Alamitos home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Los Alamitos is White, followed by Asian. Los Alamitos also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.97% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Los Alamitos include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Los Alamitos is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.