Oro Grande is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,438 people and just one neighborhood, Oro Grande is the 707th largest community in California.
Unlike some towns, Oro Grande isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Oro Grande are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Oro Grande is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Oro Grande who work in maintenance occupations (15.64%), healthcare suport services (9.11%), and sales jobs (8.42%).
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!) Oro Grande 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. Oro Grande has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Oro Grande than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Oro Grande may be for you.
In terms of college education, the citizens of Oro Grande rank slightly lower than the national average. 13.07% of adults 25 and older in Oro Grande have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.
The per capita income in Oro Grande in 2018 was $20,497, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $81,988 for a family of four. However, Oro Grande contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Oro Grande is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oro Grande 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 Oro Grande, accounting for 42.76% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Oro Grande residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Oro Grande include German, Irish, African, Italian, and Dutch.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Oro Grande's cultural character, accounting for 17.75% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Oro Grande is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Iranian ancestry.
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 Oro Grande are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 68.3% 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, 34.4% 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 32.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.0%), and 15.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 62.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Oro Grande, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.6%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.9%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 17.7% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (76.5%) 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 (14.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
