Prather is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,102 people and just one neighborhood, Prather is the 657th largest community in California.
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Prather is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Prather is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Prather who work in office and administrative support (16.79%), personal care services (13.64%), and teaching (11.49%).
Also of interest is that Prather has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Prather is worth considering.
In Prather, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.95 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Prather doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Prather is somewhat better educated than the 21.84% who have a 4-year degree or higher in the typical US community: 28.79% of adults 25 and older in the town have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Prather in 2022 was $38,492, 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 $153,968 for a family of four. However, Prather contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Prather is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Prather home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Prather residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Prather also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.92% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Prather include English, German, Irish, Dutch, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Prather is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 6.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 3.1% have Portuguese 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 Prather are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.8% of the neighborhoods in America. 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, 40.2% 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 22.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.1%), and 16.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 94.4% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (3.3%).
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 Prather, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as English (17.4%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (14.8%), and residents who report German roots (13.4%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.0%), along with some Dutch ancestry residents (6.9%), among others.
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 (42.8% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (86.9%) 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 (8.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.