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Terra Bella, CA

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Overview


Terra Bella is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,910 people and just one neighborhood, Terra Bella is the 616th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Terra Bella is a blue-collar town, with 60.23% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Terra Bella is a town of transportation and shipping workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Terra Bella who work in farm management occupations (25.00%), personal care services (11.36%), and management occupations (7.67%).

In addition, many people in Terra Bella 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 Terra Bella telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.92% 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

Being a small town, Terra Bella does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

Terra Bella ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 1.39% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Terra Bella in 2018 was $16,013, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,052 for a family of four. However, Terra Bella contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Terra Bella also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 43.41% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Terra Bella is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Terra Bella 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 Terra Bella, accounting for 82.06% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Terra Bella residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Terra Bella include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Scottish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Terra Bella's cultural character, accounting for 39.04% of the town’s population.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

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 18.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Car Ownership

American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 36.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 63.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 6.8% have Norwegian 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 Terra Bella are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% of U.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, 31.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (18.4%), and 13.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 53.7% of households. Some people also speak English (45.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Terra Bella, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (63.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.1%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 24.1% 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 (38.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (65.2%) 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 (19.2%) . 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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