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Gerber, CA

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Overview


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.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Gerber is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 38.12% of the Gerber workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Gerber is a town of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gerber who work in farm management occupations (22.03%), teaching (20.54%), and healthcare (15.10%).

Another important characteristic of Gerber is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Setting & Lifestyle

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 16.81 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Gerber is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Gerber who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.03% of the adults in Gerber have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Gerber in 2018 was $31,043, 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 $124,172 for a family of four. However, Gerber contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gerber also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.

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 81.00% 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, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gerber include Irish, English, Czechoslovakian, Finnish, and Yugoslavian.

Gerber also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 34.78%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

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 9.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.1%) than found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 2.5% have Native American 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 Gerber are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 25.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 18.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (38.4%).

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 Gerber, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (43.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 13.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (6.9%) . 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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