About Tehachapi, CA (Summit / City Center) Real Estate Prices and Overview Summit / City Center median real estate price is $289,381, which is less expensive than 95.1% of California neighborhoods and 64.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. The average rental price in Summit / City Center is currently $1,809, based on 蘑菇视频's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 93.3% of California neighborhoods. Summit / City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Tehachapi, California. Summit / City Center real estate is primarily made up of medium sized (three or four bedroom) to small (studio to two bedroom) single-family homes and mobile homes. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the Summit / City Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999. Real estate vacancies in Summit / City Center are 4.5%, which is lower than one will find in 68.5% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Summit / City Center is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood. Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics Notable & Unique: 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 Summit / City Center neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 3.9% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 95.8% of U.S. neighborhoods. Furthermore, with 1.8% of employed workers living in the Summit / City Center neighborhood active in the military, this neighborhood has the distinction of having a higher proportion of people in the military than 95.6% of American neighborhoods. This is a major shaper of the neighborhood's culture and character. Notable & Unique: Diversity Did you know that the Summit / City Center neighborhood has more Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 2.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Portuguese ancestry. The Neighbors: Income 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 Summit / City Center neighborhood in Tehachapi 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 87.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In addition, 3.6% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.8% of America's neighborhoods. The Neighbors: Occupations 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 Summit / City Center neighborhood, 34.4% 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 executive, management, and professional occupations, with 28.9% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (22.7%), and 10.2% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions. The Neighbors: Languages The most common language spoken in the Summit / City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 74.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (24.9%). The Neighbors: 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 Summit / City Center neighborhood in Tehachapi, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (31.1%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (15.0%), and residents who report German roots (11.5%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (8.0%), along with some Scottish ancestry residents (2.5%), among others. In addition, 10.9% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country. Getting to Work Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Summit / City Center neighborhood spend under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (43.9% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America. Here most residents (80.4%) 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 (12.0%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.