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San Juan Bautista, CA

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Overview


San Juan Bautista is a very small city located in the state of California. With a population of 2,124 people and just one neighborhood, San Juan Bautista is the 661st largest community in California.

San Juan Bautista home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but San Juan Bautista real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some cities, San Juan Bautista isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in San Juan Bautista are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, San Juan Bautista is a city of professionals, managers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in San Juan Bautista who work in management occupations (14.44%), teaching (11.65%), and office and administrative support (7.57%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.20% 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

One downside of living in San Juan Bautista, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.03 minutes every day commuting to work.

Being a small city, San Juan Bautista does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of San Juan Bautista are among the most well-educated in the nation: 40.48% of adults in San Juan Bautista have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in San Juan Bautista in 2022 was $46,335, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $185,340 for a family of four. However, San Juan Bautista contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

San Juan Bautista is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call San Juan Bautista 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 San Juan Bautista, accounting for 54.30% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of San Juan Bautista residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in San Juan Bautista include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in San Juan Bautista is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Chinese.

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

People

If you are planning to retire in California, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in California, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.5% of neighborhoods in CA. If a California retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Occupations

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 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.6% of U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 1.0% have Finnish ancestry.

The Neighbors

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 San Juan Bautista are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 79.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.8% of America'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, 40.7% 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 27.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (20.2%), and 7.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (26.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 San Juan Bautista, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (34.3%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (14.2%), and residents who report German roots (12.8%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (12.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.4%), among others. In addition, 16.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (36.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (74.7%) 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 (11.8%) . 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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