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Salton City, CA

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Overview


Salton City is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,155 people and just one neighborhood, Salton City is the 517th largest community in California. Salton City has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Salton City, where the median household income is $33,850.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Salton City is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 35.92% of the Salton City workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Salton City is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Salton City who work in maintenance occupations (22.96%), office and administrative support (7.61%), and healthcare suport services (7.32%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Salton City is worth considering.

One downside of living in Salton City is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Salton City, the average commute to work is 34.31 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Salton City does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

In terms of college education, Salton City ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.75% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Salton City in 2022 was $18,717, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,868 for a family of four.

Salton City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Salton City 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 Salton City, accounting for 81.33% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Salton City residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Salton City include Irish, English, German, Norwegian, and Lithuanian.

Salton City also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 31.41%.

The most common language spoken in Salton City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.

Occupations

Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Furthermore, there are more people living in the neighborhood employed as sales and service workers (61.3%) than almost any neighborhood in the country. From fast-food service workers to major sales accounts, sales and service workers make up the largest proportion of our national employment picture. But despite that size and importance nationally, this neighborhood still stands out as unique due to the dominance of people living here who work in such occupations.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 91.4% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.7% of all American neighborhoods.

People

NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.7% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

In addition, the neighborhood stands out for having an average per capita income lower than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in the United States.

Also, one of the most interesting things about the neighborhood is that it has a greater concentration of residents who live alone than most all neighborhoods in America. With 50.2% of the households here made up of people living alone, NeighborhoodScout's research reveals that this is a larger proportion of people living alone than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

Real Estate

Real estate in the neighborhood is almost exclusively owner-occupied. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher rate of owner-occupied housing than is found in 95.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. If you are seeking to rent, this neighborhood may not have many options, but high rates of ownership often indicate stability in a neighborhood.

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, 78.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 70.0% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 97.4% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Salton City are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.3% 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, 38.7% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 30.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (14.7%), and 8.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 70.0% of households. Some people also speak English (29.8%).

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 Salton City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (78.9%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.3%). In addition, 33.0% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (37.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (91.4%) 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 (5.5%) . 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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