Ojai is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 7,487 people and four constituent neighborhoods, Ojai is the 468th largest community in California.

Ojai is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.20% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Ojai is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Ojai who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.39%), sales jobs (13.61%), and management occupations (12.68%).

Of important note, Ojai is also a city of artists. Ojai has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Ojai's character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.91% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

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

Ojai Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Ojai citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 31.56% of adults in Ojai have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Ojai in 2000 was $25,670, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $102,680 for a family of four.

Ojai is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Ojai home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Ojai is White, followed by Asian. Ojai also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 15.07% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Ojai include English, German, Irish, Italian, French, Swedish, Scottish, European, Norwegian, and Dutch.

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