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Maxwell - Princeton, CA

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Overview


Maxwell - Princeton is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,275 people and just one neighborhood, Maxwell - Princeton is the 650th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

When you are in Maxwell - Princeton, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 42.93% of Maxwell - Princeton’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Maxwell - Princeton is a town of managers, production and manufacturing workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Maxwell - Princeton who work in management occupations (19.76%), farm management occupations (15.00%), and office and administrative support (11.83%).

In addition, many people in Maxwell - Princeton 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.

A relatively large number of people in Maxwell - Princeton telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 12.45% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

The citizens of Maxwell - Princeton are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 14.83% of adults in Maxwell - Princeton have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree

The per capita income in Maxwell - Princeton in 2022 was $32,660, 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 $130,640 for a family of four. However, Maxwell - Princeton contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Maxwell - Princeton is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Maxwell - Princeton 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 Maxwell - Princeton, accounting for 48.89% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Maxwell - Princeton residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Maxwell - Princeton include German, Portuguese, English, Irish, and European.

In addition, Maxwell - Princeton has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (21.25%).

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.

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 99.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Real Estate

Uncrowded roads, rural America and space to be the individual you are. If you like these characteristics, this neighborhood may fit you. With just 5 residents per square mile, is less crowded than 98.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry.

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 Maxwell - Princeton are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.3% 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, 30.5% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 27.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (15.0%), and 14.8% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 57.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (40.6%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 Maxwell - Princeton, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (48.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (11.5%), and residents who report Portuguese roots (7.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (7.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (6.2%), among others. In addition, 21.3% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (38.0% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.

Here most residents (68.2%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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