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Dunnigan - Knights Landing, CA

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Overview


Dunnigan - Knights Landing is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 4,430 people and just one neighborhood, Dunnigan - Knights Landing is the 556th largest community in California.

Housing costs in Dunnigan - Knights Landing 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 where white-collar or blue-collar occupations dominate the local economy, Dunnigan - Knights Landing is neither predominantly one nor the other. Instead, it has a mixed workforce of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Dunnigan - Knights Landing is a town of service providers, managers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Dunnigan - Knights Landing who work in management occupations (18.86%), farm management occupations (8.01%), and office and administrative support (7.53%).

Another important characteristic of Dunnigan - Knights Landing 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.

Also of interest is that Dunnigan - Knights Landing has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 12.46% 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

Dunnigan - Knights Landing is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

Demographics

The citizens of Dunnigan - Knights Landing are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.44% of adults in Dunnigan - Knights Landing having a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Dunnigan - Knights Landing in 2022 was $37,694, which is middle income relative to California, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $150,776 for a family of four. However, Dunnigan - Knights Landing contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Dunnigan - Knights Landing is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Dunnigan - Knights Landing 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 Dunnigan - Knights Landing, accounting for 50.75% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Dunnigan - Knights Landing residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Dunnigan - Knights Landing include German, English, Scots-Irish, Irish, and Scottish.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Dunnigan - Knights Landing's cultural character, accounting for 16.82% of the town’s population.

The most common language spoken in Dunnigan - Knights Landing is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Thai.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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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 NeighborhoodScout 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.

Modes of Transportation

More people in choose to walk to work each day (10.8%) than almost any neighborhood in America. If you are attracted to the idea of being able to walk to work, this neighborhood could be a good choice.

Real Estate

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 95.1% of the neighborhoods in America.

People

If you're planning where to retire, the neighborhood in Dunnigan - Knights Landing is a great option to consider. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive retirement dream area analysis, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety ratings compared to other neighborhoods in CA, offers a wide range of housing options, and has already attracted an enviable mix of college educated seniors. This neighborhood ranks as better for retirement living than 89.1% of the neighborhoods in California. If you are considering retiring to California, this is a good neighborhood to look at.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish and Yugoslav ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.3% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry and 0.4% have Yugoslav 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 Dunnigan - Knights Landing are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 63.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 37.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 87.7% 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, 33.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 25.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (18.9%), and 13.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 59.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (39.1%).

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 – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – 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 Dunnigan - Knights Landing, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (48.5%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (18.9%), and residents who report English roots (6.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (5.3%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (4.9%), among others. In addition, 16.8% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

Getting to Work

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 (44.4% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.6%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also hop out the door and walk to work to get to work (10.8%) and 6.1% of residents also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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