Gerber is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,044 people and just one neighborhood, Gerber is the 749th largest community in California.
When you are in Gerber, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 50.88% of Gerber’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Gerber is a town of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Gerber who work in farm management occupations (29.57%), teaching (17.04%), and healthcare (14.54%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Gerber work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Gerber spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 16.71 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.
As is often the case in a small town, Gerber doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Gerber citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 20.91% of adults 25 and older in Gerber have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gerber in 2018 was $29,297, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $117,188 for a family of four. However, Gerber contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Gerber is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gerber 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 Gerber, accounting for 77.22% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gerber residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Gerber include Czechoslovakian, Irish, English, Scottish, and Polish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Gerber's cultural character, accounting for 28.69% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Gerber is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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 Gerber, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry.
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 Gerber are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 44.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 91.4% 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, 25.0% of the working population is employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.8%), and 19.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (33.4%).
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 Gerber, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (38.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.5%), among others. In addition, 11.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (39.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (10.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.