Galt is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 25,767 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Galt is the 284th largest community in California.Galt is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Galt is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Galt who work in sales jobs (10.11%), office and administrative support (9.36%), and teaching (9.22%). Also of interest is that Galt has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 10.92% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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. The education level of Galt citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.11% of adults in Galt have at least a bachelor's degree. The per capita income in Galt in 2022 was $36,124, 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 $144,496 for a family of four. However, Galt contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Galt is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Galt home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Galt residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Galt also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 44.08% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Galt include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Portuguese. In addition, Galt has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (19.72%). The most common language spoken in Galt is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
