Terra Bella is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,910 people and just one neighborhood, Terra Bella is the 616th largest community in California.
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Terra Bella is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 46.49% of the Terra Bella workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, Terra Bella is a town of construction workers and builders, professionals, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Terra Bella who work in teaching (14.32%), personal care services (12.70%), and sales jobs (11.89%).
In addition, many people in Terra Bella 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.
A relatively large number of people in Terra Bella telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 11.08% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
Terra Bella 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.
The population of Terra Bella has one of the lowest overall levels of education in the country: only 3.13% of people over 25 hold a college degree. The national average for all municipalities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Terra Bella in 2022 was $27,456, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $109,824 for a family of four. However, Terra Bella contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Terra Bella is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Terra Bella 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 Terra Bella, accounting for 84.50% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Terra Bella residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Terra Bella include English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Greek, and German.
Terra Bella also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 38.72%.
The most common language spoken in Terra Bella is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Pacific Island languages.
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.
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 99.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Most American households own a car or other vehicle. Many own two cars or perhaps three. In the United States, it is useful to have an automobile not only for commuting, but also for shopping and getting to other services one needs. But NeighborhoodScout's analysis revealed that households in the neighborhood have a highly unusual car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 43.9% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.4%) than in 97.6% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 6.4% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 96.2% of America's neighborhoods.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 95.2% of all neighborhoods in America, with 30.3% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 66.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry and 6.9% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 59.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 95.6% 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 Terra Bella are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 54.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 12.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 55.2% 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, 28.7% 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 20.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing (18.9%), and 18.0% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 59.1% of households. Some people also speak English (39.9%).
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 Terra Bella, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (66.2%). There are also a number of people of Norwegian ancestry (6.9%), and residents who report German roots (6.8%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (6.0%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (2.7%), among others. In addition, 24.8% 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 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (48.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (63.9%) 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 (26.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.