Norco is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 23,797 people and three constituent neighborhoods, Norco is the 284th largest community in California.

Norco is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Norco is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Norco who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.83%), sales jobs (11.63%), and management occupations (10.72%).

One downside of living in Norco is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Norco, the average commute to work is 34.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Norco is a very car-oriented city. This is because most people - 96.7% - drive by car to work every day, and few people choose alternative modes of transportation, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. In general, car-oriented communities have a layout that emphasizes streets, highways, and ease of parking, and sometimes this can be to the detriment of human-scale priorities such as walkability alongside roads, and public spaces. For example, strip malls are something you will find in Norco.

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

Norco Information and Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Norco is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 14.96%: just 11.88% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Norco in 2000 was $20,710, 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 $82,840 for a family of four. However, Norco contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Norco is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Norco home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Norco is White, followed by African-American. Norco also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.52% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Norco include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Norco is English. Some people also speak Spanish.