Overview
Midway City is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 8,825 people and just one neighborhood, Midway City is the 431st largest community in California.
Housing costs in Midway City 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, Midway City isn鈥檛 mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Midway City are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Midway City is a town of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Midway City who work in food service (11.94%), management occupations (11.14%), and office and administrative support (10.40%).
One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 9.45% 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
Demographics
The percentage of adults in Midway City who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.77% of the adults in Midway City have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Midway City in 2022 was $28,277, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $113,108 for a family of four. However, Midway City contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Midway City is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Midway City home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Midway City residents report their race to be Asian, followed by White. Midway City also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 35.26% of the town鈥檚 residents. Important ancestries of people in Midway City include English, German, Italian, Irish, and French.
Midway City also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 47.71%.
The most common language spoken in Midway City is Vietnamese. Other important languages spoken here include English and Spanish.
Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by 蘑菇视频's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Real Estate
If you love row houses and attached homes, you will probably really like the neighborhood. The ambiance, the charm, of row houses is something special. And in sheer abundance of row houses, this neighborhood truly stands out. The real estate here has a higher proportion of row houses and attached homes than nearly any neighborhood in America. In fact, 26.3% of the residential real estate here is classified as row houses and attached homes.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Asian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 55.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Asian ancestry and 1.2% have Canadian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 42.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Vietnamese at home. This is a higher percentage than 100.0% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
Migration / Stability
The freedom of moving to new places versus the comfort of home. How much and how often people move not only can create diverse and worldly neighborhoods, but simultaneously it can produce a loss of intimacy with one's surroundings and a lack of connectedness to one's neighbors. 蘑菇视频's exclusive research has identified this neighborhood as unique with regard to the transience of its populace. What is interesting to note, is that the neighborhood has a greater percentage of residents born in another country (50.0%) than are found in 97.6% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The Neighbors
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. 蘑菇视频's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Midway City are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 46.7% of the neighborhoods in America. With 14.0% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 58.2% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 35.6% 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 29.2% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (20.3%), and 14.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
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 Vietnamese, spoken by 42.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.
Ethnicity / Ancestry
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture 鈥� our learned behavior 鈥� 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 Midway City, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Asian (55.3%). There are also a number of people of Mexican ancestry (24.3%), and residents who report English roots (2.8%), and some of the residents are also of Arab ancestry (1.6%), along with some Canadian ancestry residents (1.2%), among others. In addition, 50.0% 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 (50.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (80.5%) 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 (10.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
