Los Molinos - Tehama is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,779 people and just one neighborhood, Los Molinos - Tehama is the 565th largest community in California.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Los Molinos - Tehama is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Los Molinos - Tehama is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Los Molinos - Tehama who work in farm management occupations (21.17%), office and administrative support (14.11%), and maintenance occupations (8.71%).
Another important characteristic of Los Molinos - Tehama is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Also of interest is that Los Molinos - Tehama has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 13.07% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Being a small town, Los Molinos - Tehama does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Los Molinos - Tehama with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.63% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Los Molinos - Tehama in 2022 was $24,535, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $98,140 for a family of four. However, Los Molinos - Tehama contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Los Molinos - Tehama is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Los Molinos - Tehama home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Los Molinos - Tehama residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Los Molinos - Tehama also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 38.90% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Los Molinos - Tehama include Irish, English, German, Italian, and European.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Los Molinos - Tehama's cultural character, accounting for 19.91% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Los Molinos - Tehama is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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.
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 21.2% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, the neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.0% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about the neighborhood.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 36 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.5% of America.
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 Los Molinos - Tehama are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.6% 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, 27.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 21.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (20.2%), and 17.2% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 65.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.5%).
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 Los Molinos - Tehama, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (36.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report English roots (7.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (7.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.4%), among others. In addition, 19.9% 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 (39.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (71.2%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.