La Crescenta is a medium-sized town located in the state of California. With a population of 29,174 people and two constituent neighborhoods, La Crescenta is the 243rd largest community in California.

La Crescenta is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.39% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, La Crescenta is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in La Crescenta who work in office and administrative support jobs (16.41%), management occupations (14.49%), and sales jobs (12.31%).

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

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

In addition, La Crescenta 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, La Crescenta 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 Crescenta really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is La Crescenta 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 La Crescenta, getting to work requires a car. In fact, 97.7% of people in La Crescenta drive alone to work on most days, making La Crescenta 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 La Crescenta's landscape.

La Crescenta is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

La Crescenta Information and Demographics

The education level of La Crescenta citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (14.96%): 39.22% of adults in La Crescenta have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in La Crescenta in 2000 was $28,922, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $115,688 for a family of four.

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

In addition, La Crescenta has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (30.30%).

The languages spoken by people in La Crescenta 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 Crescenta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Armenian, and Spanish.