Borrego Springs is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,073 people and two associated neighborhoods, Borrego Springs is the 609th largest community in California.Borrego Springs is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 85.95% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Borrego Springs is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Borrego Springs who work in sales jobs (19.43%), maintenance occupations (17.94%), and business and financial occupations (12.71%). Of important note, Borrego Springs is also a town of artists. Borrego Springs has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Borrego Springs’s character. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 28.82% 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. Another notable thing is that Borrego Springs is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town. 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, Borrego Springs has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Borrego Springs a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here. As is often the case in a small town, Borrego Springs doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.In terms of college education, Borrego Springs is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.05% of adults in Borrego Springs have a college degree. The per capita income in Borrego Springs in 2022 was $52,124, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $208,496 for a family of four. However, Borrego Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Borrego Springs is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Borrego Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Borrego Springs residents report their race to be White. Borrego Springs also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 36.43% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Borrego Springs include German, English, Irish, French, and Scottish. Borrego Springs also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 29.38%. The most common language spoken in Borrego Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
