Morgan Hill is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 33,635 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Morgan Hill is the 221st largest community in California.

Unlike some cities where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Morgan Hill is neither predominently one or the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morgan Hill is a city of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morgan Hill who work in management occupations (16.81%), office and administrative support jobs (13.84%), and sales jobs (11.49%).

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

In Morgan Hill, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.88 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Morgan Hill Information and Demographics

The population of Morgan Hill is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 14.96% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 33.46% of adults in Morgan Hill have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Morgan Hill in 2000 was $33,047, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,188 for a family of four. However, Morgan Hill contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Morgan Hill is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Morgan Hill home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Morgan Hill is White, followed by Asian. Morgan Hill also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 27.46% of the city's residents. Important ancestries of people in Morgan Hill include German, Italian, English, and Irish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Morgan Hill's cultural character, accounting for 15.17% of the city's population.

The most common language spoken in Morgan Hill is English. Some people also speak Spanish.