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San Miguel, CA

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Overview


San Miguel is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,172 people and just one neighborhood, San Miguel is the 603rd largest community in California. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in San Miguel, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to San Miguel, and putting down their money on brand new construction. San Miguel’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. San Miguel does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $73,008.00.

Housing costs in San Miguel are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.

Occupations and Workforce

San Miguel is a blue-collar town, with 39.75% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, San Miguel is a town of service providers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Miguel who work in farm management occupations (20.57%), maintenance occupations (16.50%), and food service (14.35%).

Another important characteristic of San Miguel is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.

Setting & Lifestyle

San Miguel 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 San Miguel are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 15.02% of adults in San Miguel have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in San Miguel in 2018 was $20,843, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,372 for a family of four. However, San Miguel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Miguel is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Miguel 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 San Miguel, accounting for 73.44% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of San Miguel residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in San Miguel include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Czech.

In addition, San Miguel has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (47.64%).

The most common language spoken in San Miguel is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.

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

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.1% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in San Miguel is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in CA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 88.0% of the neighborhoods in California. If you are considering retiring to California, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Belgian ancestry.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in San Miguel are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.4% of the neighborhoods in America. With 37.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.8% 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, 31.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 28.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.7%), and 14.1% 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 61.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.

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 San Miguel, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (43.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.5%), and residents who report German roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Belgian ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 26.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (37.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (62.1%) 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 (17.4%) . 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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