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Buttonwillow, CA

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Overview


Buttonwillow is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,337 people and just one neighborhood, Buttonwillow is the 718th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Buttonwillow is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 58.12% of the Buttonwillow workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Buttonwillow is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Buttonwillow who work in food service (15.95%), farm management occupations (13.11%), and sales jobs (6.55%).

In addition, many people in Buttonwillow 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

As is often the case in a small town, Buttonwillow doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Buttonwillow ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.44% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Buttonwillow in 2018 was $18,173, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $72,692 for a family of four. However, Buttonwillow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Buttonwillow is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Buttonwillow 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 Buttonwillow, accounting for 84.84% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Buttonwillow residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Buttonwillow include German, Italian, Irish, English, and Yugoslavian.

In addition, Buttonwillow has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (29.79%).

The most common language spoken in Buttonwillow is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Pacific Island languages.

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 Buttonwillow, 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 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 20 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.8% of America.

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, 72.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 2.2% have Portuguese ancestry.

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 Buttonwillow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.2% 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, 34.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 22.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.1%), and 13.5% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 53.0% of households. Some people also speak English (47.0%).

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 Buttonwillow, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (72.3%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report English roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (2.4%), along with some Portuguese ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 20.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.5%) 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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