Fruita is a somewhat small city located in the state of Colorado. With a population of 13,478 people and two constituent neighborhoods, Fruita is the 38th largest community in Colorado. There’s nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Fruita, you’ll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Fruita, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Fruita’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Fruita does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $58,531.00.
Fruita is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Fruita is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fruita who work in office and administrative support (14.55%), management occupations (13.34%), and teaching (8.44%).
Of important note, Fruita is also a city of artists. Fruita has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fruita’s character.
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 8.45% 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.
Fruita is a small city, and as such doesn’t have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The citizens of Fruita are slightly better educated than the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns, with 23.59% of adults in Fruita having a bachelor’s degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Fruita in 2018 was $24,874, which is lower middle income relative to Colorado, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $99,496 for a family of four. However, Fruita contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Fruita is a somewhat ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Fruita home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fruita residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Fruita also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.03% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fruita include German, Irish, English, Italian, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Fruita is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
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