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Trona, CA

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Overview


Trona is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,886 people and just one neighborhood, Trona is the 673rd largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Trona is a blue-collar town, with 37.34% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Trona is a town of sales and office workers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Trona who work in office and administrative support (15.00%), teaching (10.78%), and sales jobs (10.63%).

A relatively large number of people in Trona telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.02% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Trona has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Trona a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

As is often the case in a small town, Trona doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The rate of college-level education in Trona is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 10.62% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.

The per capita income in Trona in 2022 was $24,426, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $97,704 for a family of four. However, Trona contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Trona is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Trona home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Trona residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Trona also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.65% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Trona include Irish, English, German, European, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Trona is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

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.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 1 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 99.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Length of Commute

Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 63.9% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 0.9% have Yugoslav ancestry.

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 Trona are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 74.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 15.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 61.0% 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, 37.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 21.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 19.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 92.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (6.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Trona, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.2%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (11.8%), and residents who report English roots (9.2%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (8.9%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (7.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (63.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (66.5%) 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 (15.9%) . 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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