La Verne is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 30,380 people and seven associated neighborhoods, La Verne is the 252nd largest community in California.
Housing costs in La Verne are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Of important note, La Verne is also a city of artists. La Verne has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape La Verne’s character.
Also of interest is that La Verne has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in La Verne telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 16.13% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
One downside of living in La Verne is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In La Verne, the average commute to work is 30.74 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The citizens of La Verne are among the most well-educated in the nation: 41.63% of adults in La Verne have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in La Verne in 2022 was $48,567, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $194,268 for a family of four. However, La Verne contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
La Verne is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call La Verne home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of La Verne residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. La Verne also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.33% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in La Verne include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
Foreign born people are also an important part of La Verne's cultural character, accounting for 17.00% of the city’s population.
The most common language spoken in La Verne is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.