Borrego Springs is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,073 people and two associated neighborhoods, Borrego Springs is the 609th largest community in California.Borrego Springs is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 97.31% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Borrego Springs is a town of service providers, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Borrego Springs who work in sales jobs (23.68%), maintenance occupations (17.04%), and management occupations (13.94%). Of important note, Borrego Springs is also a town of artists. Borrego Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Borrego Springs’s character. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 27.90% 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. Another notable thing is that Borrego Springs is a major vacation destination. Much of the town’s population is seasonal: many people own second homes and only live there part-time, during the vacation season. The effect on the local economy is that many of the businesses are dependent on tourist dollars, and may operate only during the high season. As the vacation season ends, Borrego Springs’s population drops significantly, such that year-round residents will notice that the city is a much quieter place to live. 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, Borrego Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Borrego Springs 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, Borrego Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In terms of college education, Borrego Springs is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 31.50% of adults in Borrego Springs have a college degree. The per capita income in Borrego Springs in 2022 was $50,699, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $202,796 for a family of four. However, Borrego Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Borrego Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Borrego Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Borrego Springs residents report their race to be White. Borrego Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.37% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Borrego Springs include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and French. Borrego Springs also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 23.12%. The most common language spoken in Borrego Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
