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.
In terms of college education, Oakhurst is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 29.43% of adults in Oakhurst have a college degree.
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.
