Cutler is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,480 people and just one neighborhood, Cutler is the 543rd largest community in California.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Cutler is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 65.29% of the Cutler workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Cutler is a town of transportation and shipping workers, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cutler who work in farm management occupations (21.91%), management occupations (8.86%), and office and administrative support (7.76%).
As is often the case in a small town, Cutler doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
In terms of college education, Cutler ranks among the least educated cities in the nation, as only 5.91% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Cutler in 2022 was $19,734, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $78,936 for a family of four. However, Cutler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Cutler is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Cutler 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 Cutler, accounting for 98.71% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Cutler residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Cutler include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Cutler's cultural character, accounting for 44.68% of the town’s population.
The most common language spoken in Cutler is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog.
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.
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 99.9% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
In the neighborhood, carpooling is still a popular way to get to and from work. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals that 31.8% of commuters carpool here, which is more than in 99.1% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 5.3% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 85.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 81.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.8% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Some neighborhoods have more internal cohesiveness than others. While other neighborhoods feel like a collection of strangers who just happen to live near each other. Sometimes this comes down to not only the personalities of the people in a place, but how long people have been together in that neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research has revealed some interesting things about the rootedness of people in the neighborhood. What is interesting to note, is that the neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (44.5%) than are found in 95.9% 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 Cutler are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 69.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.6% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.6% 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, 33.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is farming, forestry, or commercial fishing, with 28.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.3%), and 11.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 81.7% of households. Some people also speak English (16.7%).
Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.
In the neighborhood in Cutler, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (85.0%). There are also a number of people of Puerto Rican ancestry (2.7%), and residents who report Dutch roots (1.8%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (1.3%). In addition, 44.5% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (42.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (62.4%) 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 (31.8%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.