Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner median real estate price is $269,293, which is less expensive than 96.9% of California neighborhoods and 65.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
The average rental price in Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner is currently $1,504, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. Rents here are currently lower in price than 96.6% of California neighborhoods.
Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner is a rural neighborhood (based on population density) located in Porterville, California.
Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner 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 Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner 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 Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner are 5.2%, which is lower than one will find in 65.0% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner 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.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
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 NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 36.1% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 99.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Of particular note, 3.7% of the people in the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood currently reside in a correction facility, held due to punishment for a crime.
Our research shows that more people carpool to work here in the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner (22.4%) than in 95.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
Did you know that the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood has more Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 60.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Mexican ancestry.
Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 5.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Tagalog, which is the first language of the Philippine region, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.3% of the neighborhoods in America.
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. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood in Porterville are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 81.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 27.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.9% 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 Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood, 36.1% 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 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (17.3%), and 12.7% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 51.4% of households. Other important languages spoken here include English and Tagalog (the first language of the Philippine region).
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 Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood in Porterville, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (60.1%). There are also a number of people of Asian ancestry (8.4%), and residents who report Irish roots (6.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (6.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (2.4%), among others. In addition, 32.9% 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 Poplar Cotton Center / Jones Corner neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (37.2% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (73.9%) 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 (22.4%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.