Because there are quite a few people attending college in Weed, it is thought of as a college town. To the benefit of the many students in the area, Weed provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared towards their needs and activities.
One of the benefits of Weed is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 18.34 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
As is often the case in a small city, Weed doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The rate of college-level education in Weed is quite a bit lower than the national average among all cities of 21.84%: just 12.49% of people here over 25 have a bachelor's degree or an advanced degree.
The per capita income in Weed in 2022 was $48,339, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $193,356 for a family of four. However, Weed contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Weed also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 34.71% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Weed is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Weed home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Weed residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Weed also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 18.38% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Weed include English, German, Italian, Irish, and French.
The most common language spoken in Weed is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Laotian.
