Lake Elsinore, CA
Lake Elsinore is a larger medium-sized city located in western Riverside County, California, and it was established as a city in 1888. The city has grown from a small resort town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to a suburban city with over 70,000 residents. Extreme is Lake Elsinore’s middle name! The unique City is famous for the warm thermal winds that blow in from the neighboring Ortega Mountains. Those winds have turned Lake Elsinore into a major center for skydiving, hang-gliding and other aerial sports. Located in the center of our City is a 3,000 acre natural lake, hence the name Lake Elsinore. The Lake is a popular venue for daring (or not-so-daring) boaters, jet skiers, and water ski fans as we boast an unlimited speed limit (in the center of the Lake). Skydiving, hang-gliding, baseball, golf, off-road racing, motocross, fishing, boating, jet skiing, water skiing, paintball, skateboarding. . . You name it, Lake Elsinore has it! (Found on Wikipedia and City of Lake Elsinore website)
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LIVING IN LAKE ELSINORE
Lake Elsinore is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 70,265 people and 14 constituent neighborhoods, Lake Elsinore is the 127th largest community in California. Much of the housing stock in Lake Elsinore was built relatively recently. The construction of new real estate can often be taken as an indication that the local Lake Elsinore economy is robust, and that jobs or other amenities are attracting an influx of new residents. This seems to be the case in Lake Elsinore, where the median household income is $74,490.00.
Housing costs in Lake Elsinore are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don’t compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in California.
Lake Elsinore is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Lake Elsinore is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Lake Elsinore who work in sales jobs (10.72%), office and administrative support (10.00%), and management occupations (7.43%).
In Lake Elsinore, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 38.85 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.
The education level of Lake Elsinore citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 21.83% of adults in Lake Elsinore have at least a bachelor’s degree.
The per capita income in Lake Elsinore in 2018 was $26,506, 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 $106,024 for a family of four. However, Lake Elsinore contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Lake Elsinore is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Lake Elsinore 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 Lake Elsinore, accounting for 50.95% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Lake Elsinore residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lake Elsinore include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
In addition, Lake Elsinore has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (22.23%).
The most common language spoken in Lake Elsinore is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Tagalog.
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