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Portola - Beckwourth, CA

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Overview


Portola - Beckwourth is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,788 people and just one neighborhood, Portola - Beckwourth is the 528th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Portola - Beckwourth isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Portola - Beckwourth are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Portola - Beckwourth is a town of service providers, managers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Portola - Beckwourth who work in management occupations (14.81%), food service (14.22%), and office and administrative support (6.18%).

Of important note, Portola - Beckwourth is also a town of artists. Portola - Beckwourth has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Portola - Beckwourth’s character.

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

Portola - Beckwourth 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 citizens of Portola - Beckwourth are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 13.17% of adults in Portola - Beckwourth have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Portola - Beckwourth in 2018 was $35,154, 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 $140,616 for a family of four. However, Portola - Beckwourth contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Portola - Beckwourth is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Portola - Beckwourth home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Portola - Beckwourth residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Portola - Beckwourth also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.21% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Portola - Beckwourth include English, German, Italian, Irish, and Swedish.

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

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 Portola - Beckwourth, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (12.4%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Swedish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 5.0% have Swedish ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 2.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.6% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Portola - Beckwourth are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 19.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.7% 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, 31.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (28.6%), and 11.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

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 89.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and German/Yiddish.

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 Portola - Beckwourth, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (15.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.3%), and residents who report Mexican roots (10.8%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (10.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (9.9%), 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (52.2% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.8%) 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 (14.4%) and 12.4% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. 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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