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San Joaquin - Tranquillity is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 6,390 people and just one neighborhood, San Joaquin - Tranquillity is the 480th largest community in California.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, San Joaquin - Tranquillity is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 65.63% of the San Joaquin - Tranquillity workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, San Joaquin - Tranquillity is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in San Joaquin - Tranquillity who work in farm management occupations (39.35%), office and administrative support (10.65%), and sales jobs (6.60%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.78% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
Being a small town, San Joaquin - Tranquillity does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
San Joaquin - Tranquillity ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 2.98% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in San Joaquin - Tranquillity in 2022 was $18,869, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,476 for a family of four. However, San Joaquin - Tranquillity contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. San Joaquin - Tranquillity also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.26% of its population below the federal poverty line.
San Joaquin - Tranquillity is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call San Joaquin - Tranquillity 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 San Joaquin - Tranquillity, accounting for 93.34% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of San Joaquin - Tranquillity residents report their race to be Black or African-American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in San Joaquin - Tranquillity include German, Irish, Other Arab, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of San Joaquin - Tranquillity's cultural character, accounting for 39.13% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in San Joaquin - Tranquillity is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Arabic.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
Occupations
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 39.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.
People
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 97.0% 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 98.4% of the neighborhoods in America.
Real Estate
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 94.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 91.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 79.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.6% 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 San Joaquin - Tranquillity are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 82.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.9% 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, 39.4% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (13.7%), and 10.8% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 79.5% of households. Some people also speak English (20.0%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 San Joaquin - Tranquillity, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (91.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (1.1%). In addition, 39.1% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (75.8%) 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 (13.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
