Tulelake is a tiny city located in the state of California. With a population of 889 people and just one neighborhood, Tulelake is the 769th largest community in California.
When you are in Tulelake, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 53.27% of Tulelake’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tulelake is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Tulelake who work in food service (12.56%), farm management occupations (9.05%), and management occupations (8.54%).
Another important characteristic of Tulelake is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Tulelake is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The population of Tulelake has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 5.45% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Tulelake in 2022 was $15,204, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,816 for a family of four. However, Tulelake contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tulelake also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 37.24% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Tulelake is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Tulelake home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Tulelake residents report their race to be White. Tulelake also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 45.50% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Tulelake include Irish, German, English, Dutch, and Swedish.
In addition, Tulelake has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (15.41%).
The most common language spoken in Tulelake is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and African languages.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 12.5% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, NeighborhoodScout has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 38.5%, which is higher than 97.2% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you're nearing retirement age, or in retirement, the is an excellent choice for you to consider for top-quality retirement living. This neighborhood is rated by NeighborhoodScout as among the top 8.8% of retiree-friendly neighborhoods in California, combining peace and quiet, safety from crime, and offering diverse housing options from which retirees can choose. Maybe it's because of these amenities that a large proportion of the residents here are college educated seniors, mixed with other age groups. For these and other reasons, NeighborhoodScout identifies this neighborhood as a top-notch place to consider if you are thinking of or planning to retire in California.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Finnish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Finnish 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 Tulelake are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 89.2% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 50.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 94.3% 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, 35.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 23.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (22.3%), and 12.5% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 64.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.5%).
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 Tulelake, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (12.6%), and residents who report German roots (4.5%), and some of the residents are also of Swedish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (1.4%), among others. In addition, 15.3% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (46.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (72.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (9.0%) and 7.2% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.