Campo - Potrero is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,224 people and just one neighborhood, Campo - Potrero is the 512th largest community in California.
Campo - Potrero is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Campo - Potrero is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Campo - Potrero who work in teaching (16.21%), sales jobs (14.06%), and management occupations (9.03%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.70% 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.
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, Campo - Potrero has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Campo - Potrero a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Campo - Potrero, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 36.03 minutes every day commuting to work.
Campo - Potrero 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 citizens of Campo - Potrero are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.02% of adults in Campo - Potrero having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Campo - Potrero in 2022 was $31,082, 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 $124,328 for a family of four. However, Campo - Potrero contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Campo - Potrero is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Campo - Potrero home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Campo - Potrero residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Campo - Potrero also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 37.66% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Campo - Potrero include German, Irish, Scottish, English, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Campo - Potrero is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
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 Campo - Potrero, 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 47.3% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood stands out nationally for having a greater proportion of its residents active in the military than 95.5% of other U.S. neighborhoods. If you come here, you will notice military people active in their jobs, going to and from work, and in plain clothes out and about 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 23 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 94.1% of America.
If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Campo - Potrero is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in CA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 85.2% of the neighborhoods in California. If you are considering retiring to California, this is a good neighborhood to look at.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Campo - Potrero are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 100.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 39.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.7% 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, 32.6% 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 29.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (27.9%), and 9.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 71.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (27.0%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Campo - Potrero, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (37.7%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.4%), and some of the residents are also of Scottish ancestry (6.0%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.4%), among others. In addition, 11.7% 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 (35.5% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (77.4%) 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 (9.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.