Mount Shasta is a very small city located in the state of California. With a population of 3,192 people and three associated neighborhoods, Mount Shasta is the 600th largest community in California.

And if you like science, one thing you'll find is that Mount Shasta has lots of scientists living in town - whether they be life scientists, physical scientists (like astronomers), or social scientists (like geographers!). So, if you're scientific-minded, you might like it here too.

Also of interest is that Mount Shasta has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

A relatively large number of people in Mount Shasta telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 8.69% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.

Being a small city, Mount Shasta does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

In terms of college education, Mount Shasta is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 32.94% of adults in Mount Shasta have a college degree.

The per capita income in Mount Shasta in 2022 was $39,162, 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 $156,648 for a family of four. However, Mount Shasta contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Mount Shasta is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Shasta home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Shasta residents report their race to be White, followed by Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Mount Shasta include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Greek.

The most common language spoken in Mount Shasta is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.