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Calimesa, CA
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Living in Calimesa



Calimesa is a somewhat small city located in the state of California. With a population of 11,017 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Calimesa is the 420th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Calimesa are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.43% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.

It is a fairly quiet city 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!) Calimesa 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. Calimesa has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Calimesa than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Calimesa may be for you.

In Calimesa, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 32.46 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

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

The overall education level of Calimesa is somewhat higher than in the average US city of 21.84%: 25.58% of adults 25 and older in the city have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Calimesa in 2018 was $31,944, which is middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $127,776 for a family of four. However, Calimesa contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Calimesa is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Calimesa home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Calimesa residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Calimesa also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.54% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Calimesa include Irish, German, English, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Calimesa is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.


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