Montrose is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,063 people and just one neighborhood, Montrose is the 511th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Montrose 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.
Montrose is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 90.30% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Montrose is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montrose who work in office and administrative support (14.61%), healthcare (14.37%), and teaching (12.68%).
Also of interest is that Montrose has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 22.48% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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, Montrose does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
If knowledge is power, Montrose is a pretty powerful place. 56.31% of the adults in Montrose have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.
The per capita income in Montrose in 2022 was $45,181, 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 $180,724 for a family of four. However, Montrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Montrose is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Montrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Montrose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.00% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Montrose include Irish, German, Armenian, English, and Italian.
Montrose also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 31.30%.
The most common language spoken in Montrose is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 4.5% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 13.8% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Montrose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 11.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 54.1% 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, 56.9% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 19.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.4%), and 9.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
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 58.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Spanish, Chinese and Langs. of India.
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 Montrose, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (21.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.1%), and residents who report Mexican roots (12.9%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (10.1%), along with some Armenian ancestry residents (7.2%), among others. In addition, 31.3% 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 (36.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (68.8%) 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 (8.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.