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Jacumba - Boulevard is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,571 people and just one neighborhood, Jacumba - Boulevard is the 627th largest community in California.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Jacumba - Boulevard, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 40.79% of Jacumba - Boulevard’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Jacumba - Boulevard is a town of sales and office workers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jacumba - Boulevard who work in office and administrative support (14.58%), sales jobs (11.13%), and healthcare (9.75%).
A relatively large number of people in Jacumba - Boulevard telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 17.18% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Jacumba - Boulevard has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Jacumba - Boulevard a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Jacumba - Boulevard is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Jacumba - Boulevard, the average commute to work is 41.71 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Jacumba - Boulevard doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Jacumba - Boulevard have a very low rate of college education: just 9.85% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Jacumba - Boulevard in 2018 was $30,408, 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 $121,632 for a family of four. However, Jacumba - Boulevard contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Jacumba - Boulevard also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 30.72% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Jacumba - Boulevard is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jacumba - Boulevard home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jacumba - Boulevard residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Jacumba - Boulevard also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 29.23% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Jacumba - Boulevard include English, Irish, Italian, German, and Scandinavian.
The most common language spoken in Jacumba - Boulevard is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Jacumba - Boulevard, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 16.1% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
People
Of particular note, 5.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
In addition, if you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Jacumba - Boulevard is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in CA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in California. If you are considering retiring to California, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.6% of America.
Modes of Transportation
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 23.2% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Eastern European and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Eastern European ancestry and 8.0% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Jacumba - Boulevard are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 18.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 66.9% 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, 40.7% 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 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.3%), and 15.6% 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 English, spoken by 88.6% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.9%).
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 Jacumba - Boulevard, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (26.8%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (13.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (8.6%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (8.0%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (7.5%), 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (44.4% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (57.2%) 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 (23.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
