Biola is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,427 people and just one neighborhood, Biola is the 709th largest community in California. Biola has seen a significant amount of newer housing growth in recent years. Quite often, new home construction is the result of new residents moving in who are middle class or wealthier, attracted by jobs, a healthy local economy, or other amenities as they leave nearby or far away areas for greener pastures. This seems to be the case in Biola, where the median household income is $39,896.00.
When you are in Biola, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.15% of Biola’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Biola is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Biola who work in sales jobs (9.66%), maintenance occupations (7.35%), and community and social services (7.35%).
Being a small town, Biola does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Biola is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.14% of adults 25 and older in Biola have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Biola in 2022 was $13,998, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $55,992 for a family of four. However, Biola contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Biola also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.80% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Biola is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Biola 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 Biola, accounting for 85.84% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Biola residents report their race to be Asian, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Biola include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
In addition, Biola has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (20.97%).
The most common language spoken in Biola is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Miao/Hmong.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 99.4% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 62.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
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 Biola are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 74.6% of U.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, 32.5% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.3%), and 14.1% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 50.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Langs. of India.
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 Biola, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (62.2%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (1.7%), among others. In addition, 17.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.6%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.