Cutler is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,480 people and just one neighborhood, Cutler is the 543rd largest community in California.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cutler is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 65.29% of the Cutler workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cutler is a town of transportation and shipping workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cutler who work in farm management occupations (21.91%), management occupations (8.86%), and office and administrative support (7.76%).
Being a small town, Cutler does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Cutler has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.91% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Cutler in 2022 was $19,734, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,936 for a family of four. However, Cutler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cutler is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cutler 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 Cutler, accounting for 98.71% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cutler residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cutler include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Cutler also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 44.68%.
The most common language spoken in Cutler is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Cutler, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 28.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (31.8%) than in 99.1% of the neighborhoods in America.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 94.7% 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 96.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
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, 85.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 81.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (44.5%) than are found in 95.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Cutler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.6% 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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.3%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 81.7% of households. Some people also speak English (16.7%).
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 Cutler, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.0%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.7%), and residents who report Dutch roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 44.5% 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 (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (62.4%) 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 (31.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.