Oakhurst is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 5,945 people and two associated neighborhoods, Oakhurst is the 495th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Oakhurst 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.
A relatively large number of people in Oakhurst telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.97% 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.
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!) Oakhurst 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. Oakhurst has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Oakhurst than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Oakhurst may be for you.
Oakhurst 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 overall education level of Oakhurst citizens is substantially higher than the typical US community, as 29.43% of adults in Oakhurst have at least a bachelor's degree, and the average American community has 21.84%.
The per capita income in Oakhurst in 2022 was $44,763, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $179,052 for a family of four. However, Oakhurst contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Oakhurst is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Oakhurst home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oakhurst residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Oakhurst also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 11.95% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oakhurst include German, English, Irish, Dutch, and Norwegian.
The most common language spoken in Oakhurst is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.