LIVING IN BREA
Brea is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 47,325 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Brea is the 196th largest community in California.
Housing costs in Brea 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.
Brea is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 86.81% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Brea is a city of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Brea who work in management occupations (14.34%), office and administrative support (14.26%), and sales jobs (13.15%).
Also of interest is that Brea has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
One downside of living in Brea, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.85 minutes every day commuting to work.
The education level of Brea ranks among the highest in the nation. Of the 25-and-older adult population in Brea, 45.30% have at least a bachelor’s degree. The typical US community has just 21.84% of its adults holding a bachelor’s degree or graduate degree.
The per capita income in Brea in 2018 was $43,544, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $174,176 for a family of four. However, Brea contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Brea is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Brea home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Brea residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Brea also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 31.69% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Brea include German, Irish, English, Italian, and French.
Brea also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 21.73%.
The most common language spoken in Brea is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Korean.
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