Tipton is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,519 people and just one neighborhood, Tipton is the 635th largest community in California.
When you are in Tipton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 59.94% of Tipton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Tipton is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Tipton who work in farm management occupations (36.49%), sales jobs (8.35%), and food service (8.12%).
Another important characteristic of Tipton is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
Of important note, Tipton is also a town of artists. Tipton has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Tipton’s character.
Tipton 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 population of Tipton has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.58% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Tipton in 2022 was $17,028, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $68,112 for a family of four. However, Tipton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Tipton also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Tipton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Tipton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Tipton, accounting for 93.19% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Tipton residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Tipton include Portuguese, German, Austrian, Yugoslavian, and Other West Indian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Tipton's cultural character, accounting for 49.87% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Tipton is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Tipton, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 99.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 33.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.4% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.9% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.3% of America's neighborhoods.
Unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 91.9% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 85.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 3.4% have Portuguese ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 81.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Tipton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 28.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 79.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 21.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.4%), and 14.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 81.5% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Portuguese.
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 Tipton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.7%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (3.9%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (3.4%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.9%). In addition, 41.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (79.7%) 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 (11.2%) and 5.9% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.