Edwards is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 2,322 people and two associated neighborhoods, Edwards is the 644th largest community in California.
Edwards is a military town: the armed forces employs 19.72% of the workforce, making the military a major focus of life in the city. In the civilian sector, Public Service and Healthcare are important in the local economy and are the town’s largest civilian employers, employing 26.05% and 18.56% of the civilian workforce respectively.
Of important note, Edwards is also a town of artists. Edwards has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Edwards’s character.
One of the benefits of Edwards is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 11.27 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small town, Edwards does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Edwards are among the most well-educated in the nation: 44.85% of adults in Edwards have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Edwards in 2022 was $26,450, which is lower middle income relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $105,800 for a family of four. However, Edwards contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Edwards is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Edwards home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Edwards residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Edwards also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 17.40% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Edwards include German, Irish, Italian, English, and European.
The most common language spoken in Edwards is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.