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Seeley, CA

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Overview


Seeley is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,729 people and just one neighborhood, Seeley is the 681st largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Seeley is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Seeley is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Seeley who work in sales jobs (27.87%), healthcare suport services (17.42%), and farm management occupations (9.06%).

In addition, many people in Seeley have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

A relatively large number of people in Seeley telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 7.49% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Setting & Lifestyle

Seeley 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 Seeley have a very low rate of college education: just 7.98% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.

The per capita income in Seeley in 2018 was $13,521, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $54,084 for a family of four.

Seeley is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Seeley 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 Seeley, accounting for 90.85% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Seeley residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Seeley include African, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.

Seeley also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 28.30%.

The most common language spoken in Seeley is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.

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

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 99.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Furthermore, with 9.3% of employed workers living in the neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 99.4% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character.

Real Estate

The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.5% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.0% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.

In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 42 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 90.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (13.6%) 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 Mexican and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 69.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.9% have Portuguese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

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 Seeley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.5% 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, 29.7% 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 27.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (18.5%), and 12.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.6% of households. Some people also speak English (35.9%).

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 Seeley, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (69.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (3.6%), and residents who report Italian roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (2.5%), along with some African ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 24.0% 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 (53.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (75.9%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (13.6%) . 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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