About Tustin Foothills

Tustin Foothills is a medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 24,018 people and just one neighborhood, Tustin Foothills is the 282nd largest community in California.

Tustin Foothills is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.69% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Tustin Foothills is a town of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tustin Foothills who work in management occupations (19.43%), sales jobs (13.39%), and office and administrative support jobs (12.74%).

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

A relatively large number of people in Tustin Foothills telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.90% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

In addition, Tustin Foothills is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Because of many things, Tustin Foothills is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Tustin Foothills really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Tustin Foothills perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic night life, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

For most residents of Tustin Foothills, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97.8% of people in Tustin Foothills drive alone to work on most days, making Tustin Foothills a very car-oriented town. In general, car-oriented communities tend to emphasize streets, highways, and ease of parking, often to the detriment of walkability. Strip centers are a feature of Tustin Foothills's landscape.

As is often the case in a small town, Tustin Foothills doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Tustin Foothills Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, Tustin Foothills is a pretty powerful place. 53.80% of the adults in Tustin Foothills have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 14.96% for all cities and towns.

The per capita income in Tustin Foothills in 2000 was $42,656, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $170,624 for a family of four. However, Tustin Foothills contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

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

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