Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,269 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is the 647th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna 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.
Unlike some towns, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna who work in management occupations (18.52%), sales jobs (8.07%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.41%).
Of important note, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is also a town of artists. Pine Valley - Mount Laguna has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pine Valley - Mount Laguna’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 15.03% 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.
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, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Pine Valley - Mount Laguna a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
One downside of living in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 37.88 minutes every day commuting to work.
As is often the case in a small town, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Pine Valley - Mount Laguna citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.16% of adults in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna in 2022 was $38,106, 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 $152,424 for a family of four. However, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Valley - Mount Laguna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Valley - Mount Laguna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pine Valley - Mount Laguna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.41% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna 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 Pine Valley - Mount Laguna, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, of particular note, 3.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Also, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of California. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
The government often provides some of the more stable jobs in the economy. From local, to state, to federal government workers, the government can also be a major employer. What NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed, is that the neighborhood in particular stands out when compared nationally for the proportion of its working residents who are employed by the government. At 14.2% of its workforce, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of government workers than 96.5% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 14 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 96.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 3.8% have Dutch 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 Pine Valley - Mount Laguna are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 34.7% 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 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 14.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
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 82.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Pine Valley - Mount Laguna, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (18.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.