Monterey Park is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 59,933 people and 13 constituent neighborhoods, Monterey Park is the 118th largest community in California.

Monterey Park is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Monterey Park is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Monterey Park who work in office and administrative support jobs (18.15%), sales jobs (13.46%), and management occupations (8.67%).

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

Monterey Park Information and Demographics

The overall education level of Monterey Park citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 25.08% of adults in Monterey Park have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 14.96%.

The per capita income in Monterey Park in 2000 was $17,661, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $70,644 for a family of four.

Monterey Park is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Monterey Park home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Monterey Park is Asian, followed by White. Monterey Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 28.81% of the city's residents.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Monterey Park's cultural character, accounting for 53.58% of the city's population.

The languages spoken by people in Monterey 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 Monterey Park is Chinese. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Japanese.