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Morongo Valley, CA

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Overview


Morongo Valley is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,514 people and just one neighborhood, Morongo Valley is the 579th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Morongo Valley isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Morongo Valley are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Morongo Valley is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Morongo Valley who work in office and administrative support (11.28%), food service (9.76%), and management occupations (8.86%).

Of important note, Morongo Valley is also a town of artists. Morongo Valley has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Morongo Valley’s character.

A relatively large number of people in Morongo Valley telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 13.57% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

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, Morongo Valley has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Morongo Valley a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

One downside of living in Morongo Valley, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.01 minutes every day commuting to work.

Morongo Valley 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.

Demographics

The percentage of adults in Morongo Valley with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 16.32% of adults in Morongo Valley have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Morongo Valley in 2022 was $33,049, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $132,196 for a family of four. However, Morongo Valley contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Morongo Valley is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Morongo Valley home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Morongo Valley residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Morongo Valley also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 30.87% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Morongo Valley include German, Irish, English, Polish, and European.

The most common language spoken in Morongo Valley is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 Morongo Valley, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Occupations

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 97.3% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Cuban and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Cuban ancestry and 2.0% have Portuguese ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.5% 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 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

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 Morongo Valley are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 89.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.

In the neighborhood, 32.1% 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 27.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.5%), and 13.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 76.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (20.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Morongo Valley, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (22.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (18.2%), and residents who report Mexican roots (16.4%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (9.0%), along with some Cuban ancestry residents (4.4%), among others. In addition, 12.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.7% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.

Here most residents (84.1%) 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 (5.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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