Alpaugh is a tiny town located in the state of California. With a population of 871 people and just one neighborhood, Alpaugh is the 770th largest community in California.
When you are in Alpaugh, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 70.04% of Alpaugh’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Alpaugh is a town of farmers, fishers, or foresters, service providers, and transportation and shipping workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Alpaugh who work in farm management occupations (49.44%), food service (10.11%), and sales jobs (6.37%).
Another important characteristic of Alpaugh is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
In Alpaugh, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 37.47 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
As is often the case in a small town, Alpaugh doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
Alpaugh ranks among the bottom of the nation in terms of college education compared to other cities and towns: only 0.00% of people over 25 have a college degree.
The per capita income in Alpaugh in 2022 was $11,260, which is low income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $45,040 for a family of four. However, Alpaugh contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Alpaugh also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 48.52% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Alpaugh is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Alpaugh 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 Alpaugh, accounting for 89.66% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Alpaugh residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Alpaugh include Irish, Italian, English, German, and Danish.
Alpaugh also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 33.52%.
The most common language spoken in Alpaugh is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Pacific Island languages.
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 NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
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 NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 100.0% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
The real estate in this neighborhood consists of more mobile homes than 98.9% of all neighborhoods in America, with 48.2% of the occupied housing here being classified as mobile homes. So if you are looking for a mobile home, or you like the look and feel of mobile home parks, this neighborhood might have the setting you desire.
In addition, unpopulated, and rural, the neighborhood is one of the least crowded neighborhoods in all of America. If you like open space, no traffic, and lots of room, this neighborhood may be just what you are looking for. According to NeighborhoodScout's leading research, this neighborhood is less densely populated than 95.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighborhood is unique for having just 3.2% of adults here having earned a bachelor's degree. This is a lower rate of college graduates than NeighborhoodScout found in 98.2% of America's neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 89.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 82.9% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 98.9% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Alpaugh are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.5% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.3% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.3% 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, 44.7% of the working population is employed in farming, forestry, or commercial fishing. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 24.3% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (14.5%), and 9.3% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 82.9% of households. Some people also speak English (16.6%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – 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 Alpaugh, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (89.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (2.2%), and residents who report Irish roots (1.3%). In addition, 38.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – 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 (31.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (75.0%) 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 (15.1%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.