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Hamilton City is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,263 people and just one neighborhood, Hamilton City is the 651st largest community in California.
Occupations and Workforce
When you are in Hamilton City, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 51.72% of Hamilton City’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Hamilton City is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Hamilton City who work in farm management occupations (32.81%), office and administrative support (13.98%), and sales jobs (12.21%).
In addition, many people in Hamilton City have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.
Setting & Lifestyle
As is often the case in a small town, Hamilton City doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The population of Hamilton City has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.35% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Hamilton City in 2022 was $21,750, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $87,000 for a family of four. However, Hamilton City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Hamilton City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Hamilton City 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 Hamilton City, accounting for 91.42% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Hamilton City residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Hamilton City include German, Irish, European, Italian, and Yugoslavian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Hamilton City's cultural character, accounting for 37.52% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Hamilton City is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and African languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
Occupations
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 99.8% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 66.5% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 66.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
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 Hamilton City are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 14.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.0% of U.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, 26.2% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 25.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.7%), and 16.7% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 66.6% of households. Some people also speak English (32.2%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.
In the neighborhood in Hamilton City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (66.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.4%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (5.3%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (2.4%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (2.2%), among others. In addition, 27.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (45.8% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (77.7%) 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 (17.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
