Shingle Springs is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,660 people and seven associated neighborhoods, Shingle Springs is the 537th largest community in California. Housing costs in Shingle Springs 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.Unlike some towns, Shingle Springs isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Shingle Springs are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Shingle Springs is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Shingle Springs who work in office and administrative support (14.51%), sales jobs (13.83%), and business and financial occupations (11.16%). Also of interest is that Shingle Springs has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 16.22% 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. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Shingle Springs has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Shingle Springs has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Shingle Springs than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Shingle Springs may be for you. Being a small town, Shingle Springs does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The population of Shingle Springs is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.27% of adults in Shingle Springs have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree. The per capita income in Shingle Springs in 2022 was $56,724, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $226,896 for a family of four. However, Shingle Springs contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Shingle Springs is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Shingle Springs home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Shingle Springs residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Shingle Springs include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Serbian. The most common language spoken in Shingle Springs is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
