Montgomery Creek is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 176 people and just one neighborhood, Montgomery Creek is the 842nd largest community in California.
Montgomery Creek is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Montgomery Creek is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Montgomery Creek who work in office and administrative support (32.61%), healthcare (26.09%), and healthcare suport services (16.30%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 14.13% 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.
Overall, Montgomery Creek’s crime rate is one of the lowest in the nation, which makes a great place to live if safety is an important concern.
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!) Montgomery Creek 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. Montgomery Creek has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Montgomery Creek than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Montgomery Creek may be for you.
One downside of living in Montgomery Creek is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Montgomery Creek, the average commute to work is 37.88 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
The education level of Montgomery Creek citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 34.56% of adults in Montgomery Creek have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Montgomery Creek in 2022 was $44,412, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $177,648 for a family of four. However, Montgomery Creek contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Montgomery Creek is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Montgomery Creek home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montgomery Creek residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Montgomery Creek also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 32.16% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Montgomery Creek include German, Swiss, English, Scottish, and Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Montgomery Creek's cultural character, accounting for 25.99% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Montgomery Creek 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.
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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Of particular note, 5.1% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and Swiss ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 1.3% have Swiss 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 Montgomery Creek are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 64.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.1% 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, 37.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.7%), and 16.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.6%).
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Montgomery Creek, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (16.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (10.4%), along with some French ancestry residents (3.8%), among others.
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 (32.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (64.2%) 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 (21.9%) and 5.1% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.