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Montrose, CA

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Overview


Montrose is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,063 people and just one neighborhood, Montrose is the 511th largest community in California.

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

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Montrose isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Montrose are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Montrose is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Montrose who work in management occupations (13.44%), office and administrative support (12.99%), and healthcare (10.01%).

Also of interest is that Montrose 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 Montrose telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 15.59% 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

Montrose 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.

Demographics

The citizens of Montrose are among the most well-educated in the nation: 49.25% of adults in Montrose have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Montrose in 2022 was $43,209, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $172,836 for a family of four. However, Montrose contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Montrose is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Montrose home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Montrose residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Montrose also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.42% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Montrose include Irish, Armenian, German, English, and Italian.

In addition, Montrose has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (33.66%).

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Armenian and Iranian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 10.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Armenian ancestry and 1.2% have Iranian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 17.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Korean at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.9% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Montrose are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 71.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 49.6% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 18.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (15.5%), and 15.1% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

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 53.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Korean, Spanish, Langs. of India and Chinese.

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 Montrose, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (26.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (13.5%), and residents who report Mexican roots (11.4%), and some of the residents are also of Armenian ancestry (10.8%), along with some German ancestry residents (7.3%), among others. In addition, 33.7% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (74.3%) 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 (8.4%) . 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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