Goshen is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,968 people and just one neighborhood, Goshen is the 526th largest community in California. Goshen has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Goshen, where the median household income is $62,216.00.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Goshen is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 50.44% of the Goshen workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Goshen is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Goshen who work in farm management occupations (17.62%), food service (7.56%), and office and administrative support (7.12%).
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, Goshen is worth considering.
Being a small town, Goshen does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Goshen have a very low rate of college education: just 9.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Goshen in 2022 was $20,088, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $80,352 for a family of four. However, Goshen contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Goshen is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Goshen 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 Goshen, accounting for 78.81% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Goshen residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Goshen include English, Irish, Norwegian, German, and Dutch.
In addition, Goshen has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (36.45%).
The most common language spoken in Goshen is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Other Asian languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 99.6% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
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 37.7% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 74.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 1.7% have Portuguese ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 57.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Goshen are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 34.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 85.3% 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, 35.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 24.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (17.9%), and 13.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 57.0% of households. Some people also speak English (40.5%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Goshen, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (74.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (3.8%), and residents who report Spanish roots (2.1%), and some of the residents are also of Portuguese ancestry (1.7%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (1.3%), among others. In addition, 35.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (50.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (69.9%) 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 (21.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.