Caruthers is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,613 people and just one neighborhood, Caruthers is the 627th largest community in California.
Caruthers is a blue-collar town, with 37.76% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Caruthers is a town of professionals, transportation and shipping workers, and farmers, fishers, or foresters. There are especially a lot of people living in Caruthers who work in farm management occupations (15.24%), office and administrative support (14.13%), and management occupations (11.75%).
You will also find that a lot of people in Caruthers work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.
Also of interest is that Caruthers has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.67% 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.
Caruthers 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.
In terms of college education, Caruthers is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.22% of adults 25 and older in Caruthers have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Caruthers in 2022 was $25,236, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $100,944 for a family of four. However, Caruthers contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Caruthers is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Caruthers 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 Caruthers, accounting for 74.06% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Caruthers residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Caruthers include Portuguese, English, Brazilian, Irish, and Italian.
In addition, Caruthers has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (39.01%).
The most common language spoken in Caruthers is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
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.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 12.6% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.3% of U.S. neighborhoods.
American households most often have a car, and regularly they have two or three. But households in the neighborhood buck this trend. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 34.2% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 95.7% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Brazilian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.9% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 1.5% have Brazilian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 58.4% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.5% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Caruthers are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.6% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 60.3% of U.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, 30.3% 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 24.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (21.2%), and 12.6% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 58.4% of households. Some people also speak English (36.4%).
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 Caruthers, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (66.5%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (4.9%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.7%), and some of the residents are also of Sub-Saharan African ancestry (3.9%), along with some African ancestry residents (3.9%), among others. In addition, 29.7% 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 between 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (75.2%) 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 (12.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.