Anza is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,075 people and two associated neighborhoods, Anza is the 608th largest community in California. Housing costs in Anza 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.Anza is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Anza is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Anza who work in sales jobs (12.91%), office and administrative support (11.38%), and personal care services (9.30%). Also of interest is that Anza has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. 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!) Anza 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. Anza has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Anza than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Anza may be for you. One downside of living in Anza is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Anza, the average commute to work is 31.97 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. As is often the case in a small town, Anza doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.The education level of Anza citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 17.95% of adults 25 and older in Anza have a college degree. The per capita income in Anza in 2022 was $35,050, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,200 for a family of four. However, Anza contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Anza is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Anza home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Anza residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Anza also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.46% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Anza include German, European, French, Irish, and Norwegian. The most common language spoken in Anza is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
