Byron is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,140 people and just one neighborhood, Byron is the 739th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Byron 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.
Byron is a blue-collar town, with 35.30% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Byron is a town of sales and office workers, transportation and shipping workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byron who work in sales jobs (16.90%), management occupations (15.25%), and teaching (10.58%).
One downside of living in Byron is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Byron, the average commute to work is 38.47 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Byron is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The percentage of adults in Byron who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.51% of the adults in Byron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Byron in 2022 was $30,529, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $122,116 for a family of four. However, Byron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Byron is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byron residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Byron also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 41.97% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byron include Irish, German, French Canadian, Italian, and Portuguese.
The most common language spoken in Byron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Byron, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 62.4% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.3%) living in the neighborhood.
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 39 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 91.0% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.0% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 2.7% have Portuguese 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 Byron are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 57.5% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.1% 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, 33.7% 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 30.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.7%), and 11.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 73.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Byron, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report German roots (6.3%), and some of the residents are also of French Canadian ancestry (3.1%), along with some British ancestry residents (3.0%), among others. In addition, 16.9% 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 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (38.7% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.3%) 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 (15.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.