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El Nido, CA

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Overview

El Nido is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 331 people and just one neighborhood, El Nido is the largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, El Nido is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 56.37% of the El Nido workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, El Nido is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in El Nido who work in farm management occupations (54.41%), office and administrative support (13.73%), and sales jobs (9.31%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.56% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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

El Nido’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.

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

El Nido 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 population of El Nido has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.45% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in El Nido in 2022 was $31,586, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $126,344 for a family of four. However, El Nido contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

El Nido is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call El Nido home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in El Nido, accounting for 75.88% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of El Nido residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in El Nido include German, English, Irish, Portuguese, and Italian.

In addition, El Nido has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (40.59%).

The most common language spoken in El Nido is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Miao/Hmong.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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 El Nido, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

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 20.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.

People

Of particular note, 10.0% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.

Modes of Transportation

In the neighborhood, walking to work is a real option for many. In fact, NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research reveals walking to and from work is the chosen way to commute for 15.3% of residents here. This is a higher proportion of walking commuters than we found in 97.3% of American neighborhoods. Get ready to put on your walking shoes if you move here!

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 12 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.6% of America.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 9.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 2.2% have Brazilian ancestry.

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 El Nido are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 70.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 12.5% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 56.4% 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, 28.0% 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 21.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (20.7%), and 15.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 51.3% of households. Some people also speak English (43.5%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in El Nido, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (55.9%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (9.2%), and residents who report German roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (4.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (4.0%), among others. In addition, 30.4% 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 (54.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.3%) 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 (15.3%) and 10.5% 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.

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