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Geyserville, CA

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Overview


Geyserville is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 861 people and just one neighborhood, Geyserville is the 771st largest community in California. Geyserville has a large stock of pre-World War II architecture, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Geyserville home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Geyserville real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Geyserville isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Geyserville are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Geyserville is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Geyserville who work in farm management occupations (16.87%), office and administrative support (15.42%), and maintenance occupations (12.53%).

You will also find that a lot of people in Geyserville work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Of important note, Geyserville is also a town of artists. Geyserville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Geyserville’s character.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 22.22% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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

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, Geyserville has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Geyserville a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Geyserville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 25.97% of adults in Geyserville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Geyserville in 2022 was $48,317, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $193,268 for a family of four.

Geyserville is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Geyserville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Geyserville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Geyserville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 44.10% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Geyserville include Irish, English, German, Danish, and Liberian.

Geyserville also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 24.22%.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

If you are planning to retire in California, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in California, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 99.8% of neighborhoods in CA. If a California retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.

Occupations

It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 11.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.

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 15 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 95.8% of America.

Diversity

Significantly, 12.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Italian at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Geyserville are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 86.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.7% 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, 39.2% 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 24.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (14.1%), and 11.4% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

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 76.1% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.

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 Geyserville, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (24.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report German roots (11.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (10.6%), among others. In addition, 17.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (33.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (58.4%) 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 (7.6%) . 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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