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Keyes, CA

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Overview


Keyes is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,672 people and just one neighborhood, Keyes is the 501st largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Keyes is a blue-collar town, with 54.32% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Keyes is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Keyes who work in maintenance occupations (11.92%), healthcare suport services (8.45%), and office and administrative support (6.01%).

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in Keyes is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Keyes, the average commute to work is 32.94 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Keyes doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

Keyes ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 5.32% of people over 25 have a college degree.

The per capita income in Keyes in 2022 was $19,494, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $77,976 for a family of four. However, Keyes contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Keyes is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Keyes 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 Keyes, accounting for 74.18% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Keyes residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Keyes include Irish, German, English, Scottish, and Portuguese.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Keyes's cultural character, accounting for 32.48% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Keyes is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 7.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Furthermore, more people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 10.3% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.0% of all neighborhoods in America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 67.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.2% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Keyes are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 77.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 41.5% 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 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.4%), and 12.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.0% of households. Some people also speak English (30.2%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Keyes, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (67.8%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.5%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 32.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (34.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans. However, there is also a significant group of residents (10.3%) who commute over an hour in each direction.

Here most residents (84.7%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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