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Crestline, CA
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Living in Crestline



Crestline is a somewhat small town located in the state of California. With a population of 11,650 people and four associated neighborhoods, Crestline is the 399th largest community in California.

Of important note, Crestline is also a town of artists. Crestline has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Crestline’s character.

Also of interest is that Crestline 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 Crestline telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 18.92% 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.

Another notable thing is that Crestline is an extremely popular vacation destination. A significant portion of the population is seasonal. During the vacation season, the town experiences a large influx of people who take up residence in second homes they own in the area. As the vacation season ends, the population drops again, leaving behind a substantially quieter and smaller town.

The town is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Crestline has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Crestline a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

In Crestline, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 35.95 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Being a small town, Crestline does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

The percentage of people in Crestline who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 27.94% of adults in Crestline have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Crestline in 2022 was $38,069, 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 $152,276 for a family of four. However, Crestline contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Crestline is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Crestline home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Crestline residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Crestline also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 21.79% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Crestline include German, Irish, English, Polish, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Crestline is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.