Baker is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 442 people and just one neighborhood, Baker is the 805th largest community in California.
Baker is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.45% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Baker is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Baker who work in food service (39.19%), sales jobs (27.84%), and management occupations (9.52%).
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Baker has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Baker a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.97 minutes getting to work every day.
As is often the case in a small town, Baker doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The population of Baker has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 0.00% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Baker in 2022 was $24,663, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,652 for a family of four. However, Baker contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Baker is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Baker 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 Baker, accounting for 78.22% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Baker residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Baker include Welsh, Irish, English, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
In addition, Baker has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (47.93%).
The most common language spoken in Baker is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Korean.
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.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 0 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, the real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.8% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
There are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (58.5%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.
In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 14.8% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 97.1% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 92.7% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dominican and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Dominican ancestry and 0.8% have Belgian ancestry.
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 Baker are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 48.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 41.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.0%), and 11.7% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (17.0%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Baker, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report German roots (9.6%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (6.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (6.1%), among others. In addition, 19.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (61.0%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (14.8%) and 13.0% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.