Jamestown is a very small town located in the state of California. With a population of 3,478 people and three associated neighborhoods, Jamestown is the 582nd largest community in California.Unlike some towns, Jamestown isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Jamestown are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Jamestown is a town of service providers, professionals, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Jamestown who work in maintenance occupations (15.00%), healthcare suport services (13.41%), and management occupations (10.43%). One of the benefits of Jamestown is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 17.35 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, Jamestown does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.The percentage of adults in Jamestown who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.49% of the adults in Jamestown have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Jamestown in 2022 was $41,713, 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 $166,852 for a family of four. However, Jamestown contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Jamestown is a somewhat ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Jamestown home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Jamestown residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Jamestown also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 12.13% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Jamestown include German, English, Irish, Italian, and Welsh. The most common language spoken in Jamestown is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
