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Pine Grove, CA

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Overview


Pine Grove is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,891 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Grove is the 617th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Unlike some towns, Pine Grove isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pine Grove are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Grove is a town of managers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Grove who work in management occupations (19.99%), business and financial occupations (13.92%), and office and administrative support (12.13%).

Also of interest is that Pine Grove has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Setting & Lifestyle

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!) Pine Grove 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. Pine Grove has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pine Grove than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pine Grove may be for you.

Being a small town, Pine Grove does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Demographics

The citizens of Pine Grove are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.89% of adults in Pine Grove have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Pine Grove in 2022 was $35,486, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $141,944 for a family of four. However, Pine Grove contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Pine Grove is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Grove home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Grove residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Pine Grove include German, English, Irish, Italian, and French.

The most common language spoken in Pine Grove is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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People

In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.

In addition, there is an especially high percentage of incarcerated people (1.5%) living in the neighborhood.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish 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 Pine Grove are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 65.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 40.1% 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 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.3%), and 9.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (2.9%).

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 Pine Grove, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.4%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (14.0%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (8.7%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (6.3%), among others.

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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (49.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (79.5%) 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 (10.7%) . 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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