Overview
South Dos Palos is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,747 people and just one neighborhood, South Dos Palos is the 679th largest community in California.
Occupations and Workforce
Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, South Dos Palos is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 42.94% of the South Dos Palos workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 27.7%. Overall, South Dos Palos is a town of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in South Dos Palos who work in office and administrative support (14.50%), farm management occupations (12.24%), and healthcare (11.30%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.36% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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
One downside of living in South Dos Palos is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In South Dos Palos, the average commute to work is 35.39 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average.
Being a small town, South Dos Palos does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
Demographics
The citizens of South Dos Palos have a very low rate of college education: just 7.04% 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 South Dos Palos in 2022 was $23,153, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $92,612 for a family of four. However, South Dos Palos contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. South Dos Palos also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 35.19% of its population below the federal poverty line.
South Dos Palos is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call South Dos Palos 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 South Dos Palos, accounting for 84.54% of the town鈥檚 residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of South Dos Palos residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in South Dos Palos include Portuguese, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, and U.S. Virgin Islander.
South Dos Palos also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 27.00%.
The most common language spoken in South Dos Palos is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Portuguese.
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.
Occupations
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to 蘑菇视频's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Furthermore, from major sales accounts to fast-food workers, sales and service employees are often the backbone of the local economy. In the neighborhood, they truly stand out. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis identifies this neighborhood as having a higher percentage of sales and service workers than 95.4% of all American neighborhoods.
Modes of Transportation
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the (26.7%) than in 97.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
People
Whether by choice, divorce, or unplanned pregnancy, single moms may have the toughest job in the book. 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis reveals that the neighborhood has more single mother households than 97.6% of the neighborhoods in the U.S. Often high concentrations of single mother homes can be a strong indicator of family and social issues such as poverty, high rates of school dropouts, crime, and other societal problems.
In addition, neighborhoodScout's exclusive research revealed that 92.8% of the adult residents in the neighborhood do not have a 4-year college degree, which is a lower rate of college graduated adults than found in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Length of Commute
Regardless of the means by which residents commute, this neighborhood has a length of commute that is notable. Residents of the neighborhood have the pleasure of having one of the shortest commutes to work of any neighborhood in America. 59.1% of the residents have a commute time from home to work (one way) of less than fifteen minutes. This is a higher proportion of residents enjoying a short trip to work than 蘑菇视频 found in 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods. Less time commuting means more time for other things in life.
Diversity
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Portuguese and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 7.2% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry and 68.3% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.1% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Portuguese at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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 South Dos Palos are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. 蘑菇视频's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 93.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 32.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 83.7% 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, 37.7% 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 30.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (11.4%), and 10.6% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
Languages
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 58.2% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (34.3%).
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 South Dos Palos, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (68.3%). There are also a number of people of Portuguese ancestry (7.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (3.5%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (1.9%). In addition, 29.7% 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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (59.1% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (64.1%) 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 (26.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
