Placentia is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 47,099 people and 11 constituent neighborhoods, Placentia is the 168th largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Placentia is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Placentia is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Placentia who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.07%), sales jobs (12.44%), and management occupations (11.21%).

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

In addition, Placentia is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness.' But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Even though Placentia is not a small city, it doesn't have a public transportation system that anybody uses for their daily commute to work.

Placentia Information and Demographics

In terms of college education, Placentia 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: 31.28% of adults in Placentia have a college degree.

The per capita income in Placentia in 2000 was $23,843, which is upper middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $95,372 for a family of four. However, Placentia contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Placentia is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Placentia home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Placentia is White, followed by Asian. Placentia also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.89% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Placentia include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Placentia also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.53%.

The most common language spoken in Placentia is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.