Buttonwillow is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,337 people and just one neighborhood, Buttonwillow is the 718th largest community in California.
When you are in Buttonwillow, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 55.20% of Buttonwillow’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Buttonwillow is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Buttonwillow who work in farm management occupations (16.00%), food service (13.87%), and sales jobs (8.80%).
Another important characteristic of Buttonwillow is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
In Buttonwillow, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 31.24 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Being a small town, Buttonwillow does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Buttonwillow ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 3.17% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Buttonwillow in 2022 was $16,236, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $64,944 for a family of four. However, Buttonwillow contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Buttonwillow is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Buttonwillow 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 Buttonwillow, accounting for 83.37% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Buttonwillow residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Buttonwillow include German, Irish, Italian, English, and Yugoslavian.
In addition, Buttonwillow has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (27.66%).
The most common language spoken in Buttonwillow is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Pacific Island languages.
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.
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 14.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 20 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 94.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 69.6% have Mexican ancestry.
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 Buttonwillow are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 62.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 26.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.2% 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, 33.6% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 23.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (17.2%), and 14.6% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 52.6% of households. Some people also speak English (47.4%).
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 Buttonwillow, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (69.6%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (7.8%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.9%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 19.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.2%) 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 (7.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.