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Traver, CA

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Overview


Traver is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 731 people and just one neighborhood, Traver is the 777th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Traver is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.30% of the Traver workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Traver is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Traver who work in farm management occupations (22.16%), teaching (15.57%), and sales jobs (8.38%).

In addition, many people in Traver have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

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

Demographics

The population of Traver has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.32% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Traver in 2018 was $18,407, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $73,628 for a family of four. However, Traver contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Traver is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Traver home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Traver, accounting for 85.95% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Traver residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Traver include Irish, English, Welsh, Dutch, and Other Arab.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Traver's cultural character, accounting for 40.98% of the town’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 29.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 79.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 74.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Migration / Stability

The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. More residents of the neighborhood live here today that also were living in this same neighborhood five years ago than is found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This neighborhood is really made up of people who know each other, don't move often, and have lived here in this very neighborhood for quite a while.

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 Traver are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 29.7% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.5%), and 14.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 74.2% of households. Some people also speak English (24.9%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Traver, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (79.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report Dutch roots (2.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (1.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.5%), among others. In addition, 34.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (40.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (15.8%) . 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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