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, Penn Valley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Penn Valley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Penn Valley is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Penn Valley, the average commute to work is 43.38 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Penn Valley does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Penn Valley is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.80% of adults 25 and older in Penn Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Penn Valley in 2022 was $41,127, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,508 for a family of four. However, Penn Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Penn Valley is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Penn Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Penn Valley residents report their race to be White. Penn Valley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.61% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Penn Valley include English, Norwegian, German, Austrian, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Penn Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Pacific Island languages.
