LIVING IN PLEASANTON
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Pleasanton is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 79,871 people and 15 constituent neighborhoods, Pleasanton is the 109th largest community in California.
Pleasanton home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Pleasanton real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.
Pleasanton is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.54% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Pleasanton is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pleasanton who work in management occupations (19.15%), computer science and math (11.27%), and sales jobs (10.00%).
Also of interest is that Pleasanton has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 12.49% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. 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.
One downside of living in Pleasanton, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 33.08 minutes every day commuting to work. However, local public transit is widely used. For those who would prefer to avoid driving entirely and leave their car at home, it may be an option to use the transit instead.
Like elsewhere in America, most people in Pleasanton use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Pleasanton‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the subway. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.
If knowledge is power, Pleasanton is a pretty powerful place. 65.50% of the adults in Pleasanton have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns.
The per capita income in Pleasanton in 2018 was $71,700, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $286,800 for a family of four.
Pleasanton is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Pleasanton home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pleasanton residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Pleasanton also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 10.39% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pleasanton include German, Irish, English, Italian, and European.
In addition, Pleasanton has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (32.82%).
The most common language spoken in Pleasanton is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese and Langs. of India.
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