Tehachapi is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 10,881 people and nine associated neighborhoods, Tehachapi is the 379th largest community in California.Tehachapi is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Tehachapi is a city of professionals, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tehachapi who work in teaching (11.79%), management occupations (7.38%), and food service (6.70%). Also of interest is that Tehachapi has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. Being a small city, Tehachapi does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Tehachapi with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.45% of adults in Tehachapi have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Tehachapi in 2022 was $23,388, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $93,552 for a family of four. However, Tehachapi contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tehachapi is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tehachapi home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tehachapi residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Tehachapi also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.20% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tehachapi include German, English, Irish, European, and Swedish. The most common language spoken in Tehachapi is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
