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Bangor, CA

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Overview


Bangor is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 695 people and just one neighborhood, Bangor is the 780th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Bangor isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Bangor are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Bangor is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bangor who work in sales jobs (21.05%), office and administrative support (10.53%), and art, media, and design (8.42%).

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 21.05% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Bangor has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Bangor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bangor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bangor may be for you.

In Bangor, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.43 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Bangor does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Bangor are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.36% of adults in Bangor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Bangor in 2018 was $55,705, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $222,820 for a family of four.

Bangor is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Bangor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bangor residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Bangor also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.03% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Bangor include Italian, Irish, English, German, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Bangor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Bangor, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.1% of all neighborhoods in America, with 42.4% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.2% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 2.4% have Romanian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Bangor are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 20.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 43.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.6%), and 6.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Bangor, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (14.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.1%), and residents who report German roots (8.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.1%), along with some French ancestry residents (4.8%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.2% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (72.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (16.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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