Edison is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 255 people and just one neighborhood, Edison is the 827th largest community in California.
Edison is a blue-collar town, with 52.97% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Edison is a town of transportation and shipping workers, service providers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Edison who work in maintenance occupations (22.70%), teaching (13.51%), and sales jobs (10.81%).
The overall crime rate in Edison is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Edison is worth considering.
One downside of living in Edison is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Edison, the average commute to work is 32.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Edison is a very car-oriented town. 100.00% of residents commute to work in a private automobile rather than by other means, such as public transit, bicycling, or walking. This is because Edison is a small town , and most people who live here have to drive out of town for work, and the town population is not large nor dense enough to support an extensive public transportation system. Edison has a lot of rural roads, and houses can be far apart. Many residents drive out of town for regular shopping trips as well.
Being a small town, Edison does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The rate of college-level education in Edison is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 11.71% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Edison in 2022 was $21,254, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $85,016 for a family of four. However, Edison contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Edison also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.77% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Edison is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Edison 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 Edison, accounting for 83.26% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Edison residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Edison include Irish, British, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.
Edison also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 40.47%.
The most common language spoken in Edison is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Langs. of India.
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.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 96.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Arab ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 4.1% have Arab ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Arabic at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Edison are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 68.0% of the neighborhoods in America. With 26.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.1% 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, 29.5% 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 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (24.1%), and 14.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 55.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Arabic and Langs. of India.
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 Edison, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (64.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report Arab roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (2.9%), along with some German ancestry residents (2.9%), among others. In addition, 25.0% 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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (50.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (81.8%) 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 (10.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.