In addition, Davis is a major college town that has a very high percentage of its residents over 18 years old who are college students. Naturally, collegiate life has a major influence on local Davis culture, lifestyle and entertainment options. Davis really pulses to the beat of the academic calendar. In Davis every fall, returning students reinvigorate the community, who you will notice are all over town, buying groceries, out with friends, and getting acquainted or re-acquainted with each other and Davis. One of the beneficial effects that colleges provide is that they tend to be lasting institutions that deliver direct economic benefits to the local economy in the form of such things as jobs for faculty and staff, and spending by students. Davis benefits directly from this.
Not only is Davis a city with many college students, but it also retains many recent graduates who are looking to start new careers, creating a very large population of people who are young, single, educated, and upwardly-mobile. That’s because Davis is full of single people in their 20s and 30s and who have undergraduate or graduate degrees and are starting careers in professional occupations. This makes Davis a pretty good place for young, educated career starters looking to find many people like themselves, with good opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.
For the size of the city, public transportation in Davis is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the bus. For Davis, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.
Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Davis. 75.21% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 21.84%.
The per capita income in Davis in 2022 was $46,899, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $187,596 for a family of four. However, Davis contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Davis is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Davis home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Davis residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Davis also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 14.22% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Davis include English, German, European, Irish, and Italian.
Davis also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.02%.
The most common language spoken in Davis is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Spanish.
