Del Rey Oaks is a very small city located in the state of California. With a population of 1,553 people and just one neighborhood, Del Rey Oaks is the 693rd largest community in California.
Housing costs in Del Rey Oaks are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Del Rey Oaks is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 88.52% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Del Rey Oaks is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Del Rey Oaks who work in management occupations (16.87%), office and administrative support (15.79%), and teaching (8.85%).
Also of interest is that Del Rey Oaks has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Del Rey Oaks is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Del Rey Oaks citizens is very high relative to the national average among all cities (21.84%): 35.97% of adults in Del Rey Oaks have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Del Rey Oaks in 2022 was $58,890, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $235,560 for a family of four.
Del Rey Oaks is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Del Rey Oaks home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Del Rey Oaks residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Del Rey Oaks include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Del Rey Oaks is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish 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 Del Rey Oaks, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 2.3% have Iranian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Persian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% 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 Del Rey Oaks are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 11.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 53.0% 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, 46.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional 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 23.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.0%), and 11.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 80.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Del Rey Oaks, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.3%). There are also a number of people of Italian ancestry (12.8%), and residents who report English roots (8.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.8%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (7.1%), among others. In addition, 13.1% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (86.6%) 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 (5.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.