Overview
Empire is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,202 people and just one neighborhood, Empire is the 550th largest community in California.
Occupations and Workforce
Unlike some towns where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Empire is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Empire is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Empire who work in maintenance occupations (11.60%), farm management occupations (9.56%), and sales jobs (9.07%).
Setting & Lifestyle
The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Empire has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Empire a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small town, Empire does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The citizens of Empire have a very low rate of college education: just 8.46% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 21.84% for all cities.
The per capita income in Empire in 2022 was $20,817, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $83,268 for a family of four. However, Empire contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Empire is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Empire 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 Empire, accounting for 58.34% of the town鈥檚 residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Empire residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Empire include English, German, European, Welsh, and Irish.
Foreign born people are also an important part of Empire's cultural character, accounting for 20.02% of the town鈥檚 population.
The most common language spoken in Empire is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Native American languages.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
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 Empire, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
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 蘑菇视频 analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.5% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry and 53.1% have Mexican 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 Empire are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 78.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 38.2% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 88.3% 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, 29.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.3%), and 12.8% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 51.9% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (48.1%).
Ethnicity / Ancestry
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 鈥� some more unique than others 鈥� based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households 鈥� and importantly 鈥� 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 Empire, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (53.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (8.0%), and residents who report German roots (4.1%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (3.6%), along with some Welsh ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 18.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Getting to Work
How you get to work 鈥� car, bus, train or other means 鈥� 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 (30.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (79.6%) 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 (16.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
