Being a small city, Taft does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Taft is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.99% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Taft in 2022 was $31,344, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $125,376 for a family of four. However, Taft contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Taft is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Taft home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Taft residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Taft also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.43% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Taft include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Dutch West Indian.
The most common language spoken in Taft is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
