Midway City is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 8,825 people and just one neighborhood, Midway City is the 431st largest community in California.
Housing costs in Midway City 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.
Midway City is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Midway City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Midway City who work in food service (12.36%), management occupations (9.65%), and office and administrative support (8.13%).
Also of interest is that Midway City has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
A relatively large number of people in Midway City telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.06% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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 population of Midway City overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Midway City, 21.09% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Midway City in 2022 was $27,851, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,404 for a family of four. However, Midway City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Midway City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Midway City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Midway City residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Midway City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 34.99% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Midway City include English, Irish, German, French, and Italian.
In addition, Midway City has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (49.10%).
The most common language spoken in Midway City is Vietnamese. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.
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.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 23.5% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Asian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 53.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 1.9% have Native American ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 40.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. This is a higher percentage than 100.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (49.4%) than are found in 97.4% 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 Midway City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 44.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 17.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 65.2% 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, 35.0% 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 30.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.4%), and 13.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 Vietnamese, spoken by 40.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish and Arabic.
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 Midway City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (53.1%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (26.8%), and residents who report English roots (3.0%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (1.9%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (1.8%), among others. In addition, 49.4% 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 (49.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.4%) 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 (12.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.