Pine Mountain Club is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,422 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Mountain Club is the 639th largest community in California.
Pine Mountain Club is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Mountain Club is a town of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Mountain Club who work in food service (16.25%), healthcare (10.95%), and management occupations (8.60%).
Of important note, Pine Mountain Club is also a town of artists. Pine Mountain Club has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pine Mountain Club’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 23.78% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
Another notable thing is that Pine Mountain Club is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.
Pine Mountain Club is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Pine Mountain Club’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.
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 Mountain Club 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 Mountain Club has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pine Mountain Club than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pine Mountain Club may be for you.
In Pine Mountain Club, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 39.78 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
Pine Mountain Club 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 Pine Mountain Club is very well educated relative to most cities and towns in the nation, where the average community has 21.84% of its adult population holding a 4-year degree or higher: 36.61% of adults in Pine Mountain Club have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pine Mountain Club in 2022 was $39,498, 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 $157,992 for a family of four. However, Pine Mountain Club contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Mountain Club is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Mountain Club home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Mountain Club residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Pine Mountain Club also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 20.44% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pine Mountain Club include German, Italian, English, Irish, and Polish.
The most common language spoken in Pine Mountain Club is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Long commutes can be brutal. They take time, money, and energy, leaving less of you for yourself and your family. The residents of the neighborhood unfortunately have the distinction of having, on average, a longer commute than most any neighborhood in America. 25.9% of commuters here travel more than one hour just one-way to work. That is more than two hours per day. This percentage with two-hour + round-trip commutes is higher than Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ found in 99.9% of all neighborhoods in America.
Despite all of the residential real estate here in the neighborhood, Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ has discovered that much of it is vacant. In resort or second-home vacation areas, this naturally occurs because homes and apartments are seasonally occupied, and empty for a portion of the year. In non-vacation or resort areas, however, this can be an indicator of property abandonment or a weak real estate market. The vacancy rate here is 46.1%, which is higher than 98.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
In addition, uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 7 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 97.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
If you are planning to retire in California, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in California, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 98.2% of neighborhoods in CA. If a California retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Canadian and Scottish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Canadian ancestry and 5.1% have Scottish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 11.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 99.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 Pine Mountain Club are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 75.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 1.1% 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 78.2% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 37.4% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 34.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (17.5%), and 10.2% in clerical, assistant, and tech support 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 English, spoken by 65.8% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region), Italian and Chinese.
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Pine Mountain Club, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (18.4%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (14.9%), and residents who report German roots (10.1%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.8%), along with some English ancestry residents (9.7%), among others. In addition, 14.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (26.3% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (25.9%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (64.4%) 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 (11.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.