Byron is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,140 people and just one neighborhood, Byron is the 739th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Byron 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.
Byron is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Byron is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Byron who work in management occupations (14.34%), healthcare suport services (14.21%), and sales jobs (11.82%).
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Byron has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Byron has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Byron than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Byron may be for you.
In Byron, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 33.82 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Byron 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 percentage of adults in Byron with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 15.67% of adults in Byron have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Byron in 2022 was $28,865, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $115,460 for a family of four. However, Byron contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Byron is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Byron home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Byron residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Byron also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 42.57% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Byron include Irish, English, Italian, French Canadian, and Greek.
Byron also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.99%.
The most common language spoken in Byron is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
This neighborhood has the distinction of having one of the lowest real estate vacancy rates of any neighborhood in America. With just 0.0% of the real estate vacant, this indicates an exceptionally strong demand for real estate in the neighborhood, and/or an issue with creating enough supply for the demand. This could have the effect of increasing real estate prices, increasing supply to meet demand, or both.
In addition, 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 91.0% of the neighborhoods in America.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 59.0% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.9% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
There is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.3%) living in the neighborhood.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's analysis shows that the neighborhood has a greater concentration of residents currently enrolled in college than 95.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. With 11.1% of the population here attending college, this is very much a college-focused neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Greek and French Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Greek ancestry and 3.2% have French Canadian ancestry.
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 Byron are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 48.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 19.4% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.1% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 33.7% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 25.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 16.6% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 70.0% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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 Byron, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (39.3%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report Asian roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (4.2%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.6%), among others. In addition, 23.8% 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 (31.0% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (76.0%) 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 (12.9%) and 6.9% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work 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.