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Mineral, CA

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Overview


Mineral is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 136 people and just one neighborhood, Mineral is the 849th largest community in California. Much of the housing stock in Mineral was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Mineral, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 56.25% of Mineral’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Mineral is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mineral who work in computer science and math (27.08%), sales jobs (16.67%), and office and administrative support (0.00%).

Also of interest is that Mineral has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

Another notable thing is that Mineral is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

Overall, Mineral’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.

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

Compared to the rest of the country, citizens of Mineral spend much less time in their cars: on average, their commute to work is only 7.50 minutes. This also means that noise and pollution levels in the town are less than they would otherwise be.

Mineral 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 population of Mineral overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Mineral, 23.38% have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Mineral in 2018 was $47,827, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $191,308 for a family of four. However, Mineral contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Mineral home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mineral residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Mineral include British, German, European, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Mineral is English. Other important languages spoken here include Native American languages and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 8.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 4 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

People

There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.4%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% 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 97.1% 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 Mineral are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 47.9% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 10.2% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 50.2% of America'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, 34.6% 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 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 13.7% 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 87.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 Mineral, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (14.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report German roots (9.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.6%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (4.3%), 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (27.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (86.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. 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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