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Colfax, CA

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Overview


Colfax is a very small city located in the state of California. With a population of 2,021 people and just one neighborhood, Colfax is the 669th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Colfax 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.

Occupations and Workforce

Colfax is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Colfax is a city of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Colfax who work in office and administrative support (12.56%), sales jobs (10.58%), and management occupations (8.22%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 17.31% 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

As is often the case in a small city, Colfax doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Colfax is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 20.60% of adults 25 and older in Colfax have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Colfax in 2018 was $38,262, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $153,048 for a family of four. However, Colfax contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Colfax is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Colfax home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Colfax residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Colfax also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.66% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Colfax include German, Irish, English, European, and Norwegian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 7.0% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in California, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in California.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 0.7% have Yugoslav ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Colfax are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 75.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 7.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 58.6% of America's neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 35.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.0%), and 16.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (4.6%).

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 Colfax, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (9.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (34.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (78.5%) 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 (5.6%) . 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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