Frazier Park is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,592 people and just one neighborhood, Frazier Park is the 630th largest community in California.
Frazier Park is a decidedly white-collar town, with fully 95.99% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Frazier Park is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Frazier Park who work in teaching (19.29%), sales jobs (15.90%), and healthcare suport services (14.51%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 20.98% 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.
The education level of Frazier Park citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 22.19% of adults in Frazier Park have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Frazier Park in 2022 was $27,942, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $111,768 for a family of four. However, Frazier Park contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Frazier Park also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.79% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Frazier Park is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Frazier Park home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Frazier Park residents report their race to be White. Frazier Park also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.36% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Frazier Park include German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Frazier Park is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Frazier Park, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 39.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 3.7% have Scots-Irish 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 Frazier Park are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 90.3% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.6% 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, 39.8% 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 32.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (19.1%), and 8.8% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.8% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.3%).
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 Frazier Park, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (18.2%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (13.3%), and residents who report English roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (10.4%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (4.3%), among others.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.4% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (61.7%) 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 (18.5%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.