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Alta, CA

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Overview


Alta is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 615 people and just one neighborhood, Alta is the 788th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Alta is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 86.73% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Alta is a town of managers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alta who work in management occupations (20.15%), business and financial occupations (20.15%), and healthcare (8.16%).

Also of interest is that Alta 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 Alta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 33.16% 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

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!) Alta 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. Alta has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Alta than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Alta may be for you.

One downside of living in Alta is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Alta, the average commute to work is 40.84 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Alta doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The citizens of Alta are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.12% of adults in Alta have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Alta in 2022 was $74,590, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $298,360 for a family of four. However, Alta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Alta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Alta residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Alta include German, Italian, Russian, Ukrainian, and English.

The most common language spoken in Alta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.

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

Car Ownership

We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 42.1% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.

Real Estate

This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.2% of America. One of the notable things about is that it is one of the quietest neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and quantitative rating of quietness. When you are here, you will find it to be very quiet. If quiet and peaceful are your cup of tea, you may have found a great place for you.

In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 29.7%, which is higher than 95.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Ukrainian and Czechoslovakian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Ukrainian ancestry and 0.5% have Czechoslovakian 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 Alta are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 67.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 47.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 93.0% 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, 41.3% 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 30.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.6%), and 8.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 97.2% of households. Some people also speak Italian (3.6%).

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 Alta, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.5%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report English roots (11.0%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.1%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (4.9%), among others.

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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.

Here most residents (72.3%) 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 (8.2%) . 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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