Somerset is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,434 people and two associated neighborhoods, Somerset is the 588th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Somerset 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.

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

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 20.42% 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.

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

One downside of living in Somerset is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Somerset, the average commute to work is 34.43 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.

As is often the case in a small town, Somerset doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

The percentage of adults in Somerset who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.29% of the adults in Somerset have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Somerset in 2022 was $43,764, 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 $175,056 for a family of four. However, Somerset contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Somerset is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Somerset home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Somerset residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Somerset also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.98% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Somerset include English, Irish, German, Italian, and European.

The most common language spoken in Somerset is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.