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Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,269 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is the 647th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna who work in management occupations (18.52%), sales jobs (8.07%), and law enforcement and fire fighting (7.41%).
Of important note, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is also a town of artists. Pine Valley - Mount Laguna has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Pine Valley - Mount Laguna’s character.
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 15.03% 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.
Setting & Lifestyle
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!) Pine Valley - Mount Laguna 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. Pine Valley - Mount Laguna has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna may be for you.
In Pine Valley - Mount Laguna, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.88 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Demographics
The citizens of Pine Valley - Mount Laguna are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 22.16% of adults in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna in 2022 was $38,106, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $152,424 for a family of four. However, Pine Valley - Mount Laguna contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Valley - Mount Laguna home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Valley - Mount Laguna residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pine Valley - Mount Laguna also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 19.41% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Dutch.
The most common language spoken in Pine Valley - Mount Laguna is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Italian.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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.
People
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, of particular note, 3.2% of the people in the neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Also, if you're looking for a great spot to raise a family, then look no further than the neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that the combination of good quality public schools, above-average safety from crime, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family homes, help make this neighborhood among the top 13.5% of family-friendly neighborhoods across the state of California. In addition, there are a high proportion of other families with school-aged children living here, making it easy for parents and their children to socialize and develop a sense of community support. In addition, families here highly value education, as is reflected by the strength of the local schools, in part due to the educational attainment of the parents here, who vote in support of the public schools.
Occupations
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 96.5% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Real Estate
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 14 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 96.1% of America.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Swiss and Dutch ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Swiss ancestry and 3.8% have Dutch ancestry.
The Neighbors
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 Pine Valley - Mount Laguna are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 76.2% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America'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, 34.7% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.9%), and 14.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
Languages
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 82.9% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish, Italian and Polish.
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 Pine Valley - Mount Laguna, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (23.0%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (18.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (11.5%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (8.0%), among others.
Getting to Work
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 30 and 45 minutes commuting one-way to work (39.9% of working residents), which is at or a bit above the average length of a commute across all U.S. neighborhoods.
Here most residents (80.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
SCOUT’s patented match algorithm identifies the most similar neighborhoods to a subject location, and quantifies the similarity to the subject location. This allows analysts to identify the most similar neighborhoods in a local market area for appraisals, investments, and research.
The algorithm uses 273 neighborhood conditions, identifies the dominant dimensions underlying the conditions and calculates the similarity. This captures the true culture and character of locations, economic conditions, and trends.
The closer to 100% means the locations are nearly identical. 80% is a very good, but not excellent match, and so forth.
