Buena Park is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 78,358 people and 12 constituent neighborhoods, Buena Park is the 84th largest community in California.

Buena Park is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Buena Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buena Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.76%), sales jobs (12.06%), and management occupations (8.03%).

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

In addition, Buena Park 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.

Buena Park Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Buena Park is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 14.96%: 19.67% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Buena Park in 2000 was $18,031, which is middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,124 for a family of four.

Buena Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Buena Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Buena Park is White, followed by Asian. Buena Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.28% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Buena Park include German, Irish, English, and Italian.

Buena Park also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 32.97%.

The languages spoken by people in Buena Park 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 Buena Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Korean, and Tagalog.