Inyokern is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 988 people and just one neighborhood, Inyokern is the 757th largest community in California.
Inyokern is a blue-collar town, with 42.15% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Inyokern is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Inyokern who work in sales jobs (18.73%), business and financial occupations (12.12%), and food service (11.85%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Inyokern has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Inyokern has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Inyokern than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Inyokern may be for you.
Inyokern is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Inyokern, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 97.83% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.
Inyokern is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The rate of college-level education in Inyokern is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.05% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Inyokern in 2022 was $26,061, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $104,244 for a family of four. However, Inyokern contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Inyokern is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Inyokern home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Inyokern residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Inyokern also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.09% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Inyokern include Irish, German, English, Russian, and Finnish.
The most common language spoken in Inyokern is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Inyokern, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 27.7% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 99.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Astoundingly, the neighborhood has one of the highest concentrations of divorcees living here than of any neighborhood, a higher concentration than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. This may be because people living here divorce more often than others, or that divorced people move here after they become divorced. If you are divorced, you will be in good company in this particular Inyokern neighborhood.
In addition, if you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 8.7% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in California, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in California.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.6% of all neighborhoods in America, with 39.3% 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.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Irish and Hungarian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 36.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Irish ancestry and 6.3% have Hungarian ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Inyokern are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 64.2% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 67.3% 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, 39.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 35.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions (27.7%), and 17.7% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
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 English, spoken by 96.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
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 Inyokern, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Irish (36.0%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (24.1%), and residents who report German roots (19.8%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (6.6%), along with some Swedish ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.
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 (50.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (88.7%) 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 (7.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.