About Rancho Murieta

Rancho Murieta is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,178 people and just one neighborhood, Rancho Murieta is the 549th largest community in California.

Rancho Murieta is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 92.39% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Rancho Murieta is a town of sales and office workers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Rancho Murieta who work in management occupations (17.04%), office and administrative support jobs (16.28%), and sales jobs (15.77%).

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

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.35% 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.

One downside of living in Rancho Murieta, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 38.15 minutes every day commuting to work.

Rancho Murieta is a very car-oriented town. 96.96% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Rancho Murieta is a small town, and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Rancho Murieta has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.

Being a small town, Rancho Murieta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Rancho Murieta Information and Demographics

The population of Rancho Murieta is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 40.96% of adults in Rancho Murieta have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Rancho Murieta in 2000 was $44,010, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $176,040 for a family of four. However, Rancho Murieta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Rancho Murieta home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Rancho Murieta is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Rancho Murieta include English, German, Irish, Italian, French, and Scottish.

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