Mojave is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,699 people and just one neighborhood, Mojave is the 535th largest community in California.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Mojave is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.17% of the Mojave workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Mojave is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Mojave who work in office and administrative support (12.80%), maintenance occupations (11.00%), and sales jobs (8.63%).
A relatively large number of people in Mojave telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.30% 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.
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Mojave has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Mojave a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Mojave 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 Mojave has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 4.79% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Mojave in 2022 was $22,991, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $91,964 for a family of four. However, Mojave contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Mojave also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 36.13% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Mojave is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Mojave 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 Mojave, accounting for 52.86% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Mojave residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Mojave include English, Scottish, German, Irish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Mojave is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
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.
NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 98.0% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 98.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
In addition, of note, 58.0% of the children in this area live in poverty; an extraordinarily high percentage compared to other neighborhoods in the nation. In a nation where approximately one in four children grows up in poverty, this neighborhood stands out for the depth of the problem manifested here.
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. 12.2% 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 NeighborhoodScout found in 97.3% of all neighborhoods in America.
More people work in manufacturing and as laborers here in the neighborhood than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in America. Despite the loss of manufacturing jobs across the nation, this neighborhood remains a place where, compared to other parts of the country, you will find many laborers and manufacturers.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scottish and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Scottish ancestry and 5.4% have Native American ancestry.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Mojave are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 83.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 58.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 96.4% 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, 43.0% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer 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 32.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (18.8%), and 6.0% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 69.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (28.1%).
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 Mojave, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (45.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.6%), and residents who report Scottish roots (7.1%), and some of the residents are also of Native American ancestry (5.4%), along with some German ancestry residents (3.8%), among others. In addition, 13.0% 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 (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. However, there is also a significant group of residents (12.2%) who commute over an hour in each direction.
Here most residents (82.7%) 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 (5.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.