Cressey is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 366 people and just one neighborhood, Cressey is the 813th largest community in California.
Cressey is a blue-collar town, with 42.74% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Cressey is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Cressey who work in sales jobs (25.00%), art, media, and design (8.87%), and the sciences (8.87%).
Of important note, Cressey is also a town of artists. Cressey has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Cressey’s character.
And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Cressey has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 8.59% 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.
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, Cressey has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Cressey a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Cressey is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Cressey with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.41% of adults in Cressey have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cressey in 2022 was $25,719, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $102,876 for a family of four. However, Cressey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cressey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cressey 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 Cressey, accounting for 47.50% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cressey residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Cressey include German, British, Norwegian, Portuguese, and English.
The most common language spoken in Cressey is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
An interesting characteristic about the neighborhood is that there are more incarcerated people living here than 99.5% of neighborhoods in the U.S. The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, currently with 1 out of every 100 adults in the country are incarcerated as a punishment for crimes committed. The extremely high incarceration rate of this neighborhood could mean that a prison, juvenile detention facility or other correctional facility occupies a large proportion of the neighborhood, or contains a large portion of the neighborhood's population.
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 99.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 2.2% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.8% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Cressey are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 56.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.9% 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, 35.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.3%), and 12.4% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (39.9%).
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 Cressey, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.0%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.0%), and some of the residents are also of Portuguese ancestry (2.4%), along with some Native American ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 18.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 (44.0% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (9.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.