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Del Rey, CA

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Overview


Del Rey is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,358 people and just one neighborhood, Del Rey is the 717th largest community in California.

Occupations and Workforce

Del Rey is a blue-collar town, with 56.56% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Del Rey is a town of transportation and shipping workers, professionals, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Del Rey who work in teaching (10.98%), farm management occupations (9.51%), and sales jobs (9.02%).

In addition, many people in Del Rey 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Del Rey 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.

Demographics

The population of Del Rey has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 2.20% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.

The per capita income in Del Rey in 2022 was $18,548, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $74,192 for a family of four. However, Del Rey contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Del Rey is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Del Rey 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 Del Rey, accounting for 95.24% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Del Rey residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Del Rey include French, British, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Del Rey's cultural character, accounting for 26.57% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Del Rey is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Langs. of India.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 99.2% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.

Modes of Transportation

While most Americans do drive to work alone each day, the neighborhood stands out by having 88.6% of commuters doing so, which is a higher proportion of people driving alone to work than NeighborhoodScout found in 95.7% of all American neighborhoods.

Diversity

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, 80.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 61.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.

The Neighbors

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 Del Rey are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 72.0% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 36.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 86.8% 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, 32.8% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 22.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.0%), and 11.6% in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 61.2% of households. Some people also speak English (35.9%).

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 Del Rey, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (80.0%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (4.2%), and residents who report German roots (3.9%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (3.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (3.2%), among others. In addition, 20.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (44.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (88.6%) 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 (6.1%) . 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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