Los Gatos is a medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 28,683 people and 19 constituent neighborhoods, Los Gatos is the 246th largest community in California.

Los Gatos is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 92.96% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Los Gatos is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Los Gatos who work in management occupations (23.63%), sales jobs (13.32%), and office and administrative support jobs (10.11%).

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

Residents of Los Gatos by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 96.7% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented town. While Los Gatos may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

Los Gatos Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Los Gatos. 58.90% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Los Gatos in 2000 was $56,094, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $224,376 for a family of four. However, Los Gatos contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Los Gatos is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Los Gatos home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Los Gatos is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Los Gatos include German, English, Irish, Italian, European, French, Scottish, and Iranian.

The languages spoken by people in Los Gatos 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 Los Gatos is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Chinese, and Persian.