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Biola, CA

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Overview


Biola is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,427 people and just one neighborhood, Biola is the 709th largest community in California. Much of the housing stock in Biola was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Biola economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Biola, where the median household income is $57,411.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Biola is a blue-collar town, with 57.58% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Biola is a town of production and manufacturing workers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Biola who work in sales jobs (8.39%), teaching (6.61%), and community and social services (6.13%).

Setting & Lifestyle

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

Demographics

In Biola, just 9.83% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Biola in 2018 was $13,496, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $53,984 for a family of four. However, Biola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Biola also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 40.26% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Biola is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biola 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 Biola, accounting for 84.55% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Biola residents report their race to be Asian, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Biola include Portuguese, Iranian, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

Biola also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.75%.

The most common language spoken in Biola is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English 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 Biola, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 14.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.4% 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, 61.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican 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 Biola are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 32.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 82.7% of U.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, 36.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 24.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.7%), and 14.2% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 54.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.

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 Biola, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (61.4%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report German roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (3.2%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.4% 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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (66.6%) 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 (19.7%) and 8.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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