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Mojave, CA

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Overview


Mojave is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,699 people and just one neighborhood, Mojave is the 535th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mojave is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.17% of the Mojave workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mojave is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mojave who work in office and administrative support (12.80%), maintenance occupations (11.00%), and sales jobs (8.63%).

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 9.30% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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

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

Demographics

In terms of college education, Mojave ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 4.79% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Mojave in 2018 was $22,991, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,964 for a family of four. However, Mojave contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mojave also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Mojave is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mojave 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 Mojave, accounting for 52.86% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Mojave residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mojave include English, Scottish, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 98.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (58.0%) than found in 96.4% 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.

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. 12.2% 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 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America.

Occupations

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research identifies the neighborhood as having one of the highest concentrations of people employed in manufacturing or as laborers of any neighborhood in America. In fact, despite the loss of manufacturing jobs nationally, this neighborhood has 43.0% of its working residents employed in such fields, which is a higher proportion than 96.0% of American neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 5.4% have Native American 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 Mojave are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.4% 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, 43.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 6.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.1%).

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 Mojave, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (45.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Scottish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (5.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 13.0% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (12.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (5.1%) . 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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