Gerber is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 1,044 people and just one neighborhood, Gerber is the 749th largest community in California.
Gerber is a blue-collar town, with 38.12% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Gerber is a town of professionals, farmers, fishers, or foresters, and service providers. There are especially a lot of people living in Gerber who work in farm management occupations (22.03%), teaching (20.54%), and healthcare (15.10%).
Another important characteristic of Gerber is that a lot of people work in agricultural jobs, especially compared to most other communities in America, and there are quite a number of farms in town.
One of the benefits of Gerber is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 16.81 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.
As is often the case in a small town, Gerber doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.
The education level of Gerber citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.03% of adults 25 and older in Gerber have a college degree.
The per capita income in Gerber in 2022 was $31,043, which is lower middle income relative to California, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $124,172 for a family of four. However, Gerber contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Gerber also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 31.46% of its population below the federal poverty line.
Gerber is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Gerber home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Gerber, accounting for 81.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Gerber residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Gerber include Irish, English, Czechoslovakian, Finnish, and Yugoslavian.
In addition, Gerber has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (34.78%).
The most common language spoken in Gerber is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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 neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 9.4% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 98.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
The neighborhood has a greater percentage of children living in poverty (55.1%) than found in 95.7% of all U.S. neighborhoods. Children living in poverty is one of the challenges facing America, and the world, and in this neighborhood in particular, the problem can be considered acute.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Native American ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.1% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 2.5% have Native American ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Gerber are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 79.1% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 55.1% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 95.7% of U.S. neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 25.1% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 25.0% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (21.9%), and 18.5% in manufacturing and laborer occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 61.3% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (38.4%).
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 neighborhood in Gerber, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (43.8%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (8.3%), and residents who report English roots (7.6%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (6.1%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 13.6% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (41.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (74.1%) 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 (6.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.