Bangor is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 695 people and just one neighborhood, Bangor is the 780th largest community in California.
Bangor is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Bangor is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Bangor who work in sales jobs (18.94%), teaching (15.91%), and office and administrative support (6.82%).
Of important note, Bangor is also a town of artists. Bangor has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Bangor’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 13.64% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.
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!) Bangor 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. Bangor has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Bangor than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Bangor may be for you.
One downside of living in Bangor is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Bangor, the average commute to work is 34.06 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Bangor 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 percentage of adults in Bangor with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 14.79% of adults in Bangor have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Bangor in 2022 was $58,802, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $235,208 for a family of four. However, Bangor contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Bangor home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Bangor residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Bangor include Italian, German, Irish, English, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Bangor is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Miao/Hmong.
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.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 97.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 40.5% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 90.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.8% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 96.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Lithuanian and Romanian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Lithuanian ancestry and 2.4% have Romanian ancestry.
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 Bangor are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 51.1% of the neighborhoods in America. With 24.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 75.3% 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, 37.0% 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 29.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (24.6%), and 6.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (9.9%).
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 Bangor, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (11.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (9.0%), and residents who report German roots (8.3%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (5.6%), along with some Asian ancestry residents (5.2%), among others.
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (76.1%) 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 (15.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.