La Canada Flintridge is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 20,381 people and six constituent neighborhoods, La Canada Flintridge is the 309th largest community in California.

La Canada Flintridge is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.64% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, La Canada Flintridge is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Canada Flintridge who work in management occupations (19.85%), sales jobs (13.36%), and office and administrative support jobs (8.97%).

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

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

In addition, La Canada Flintridge 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.

Because of many things, La Canada Flintridge 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, La Canada Flintridge really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is La Canada Flintridge 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.

Residents of La Canada Flintridge by-and-large get to work each day by driving: 97.3% use their own cars for their daily commute, making it a very car-oriented city. While La Canada Flintridge may be a convenient place for driving around town, the negative aspect of this is that places that are suitable for walking or bicycling to and from work or stores may be few and far between. In general, car-oriented communities emphasize roads and convenience of driving, but not have a lot of walking-friendly areas to get from home to work, and tend not to have a lot of public transportation options.

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

La Canada Flintridge Information and Demographics

If knowledge is power, La Canada Flintridge is a pretty powerful place. 63.50% of the adults in La Canada Flintridge 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 La Canada Flintridge in 2000 was $52,838, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $211,352 for a family of four. However, La Canada Flintridge contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

La Canada Flintridge is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Canada Flintridge home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in La Canada Flintridge is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in La Canada Flintridge include English, German, Irish, Italian, Armenian, and European.

In addition, La Canada Flintridge has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.49%).

The languages spoken by people in La Canada Flintridge are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in La Canada Flintridge is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Spanish, and Chinese.