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CALIFORNIA: W HAT THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX CALIFORNIA: REVEALS W HAT THE HUMAN D EVELOP M EN T IN DEX R EVEAL S
The Five Californias The Five Californias These “Five Californias” represent the wildly divergent realities faced by CaliforniaThese residents “FiveinCalifornias” terms of well-being. represent the HD INDEX
Silicon Valley Shangri-La
Silicon Valley Shangri-La9.35
1% of CA population 2 Neighborhood and County Groups
Metro-Coastal Enclave California 18% of CA population 46 Neighborhood and County Groups
Main Street California Struggling California
Metro-Coastal Enclave California 7.92 83.2
Affluent, credentialed, and resilient, the knowledge workers living in Metro-Coastal Enclave California enjoy comparative financial comfort and security in upscale urban and suburban neighborhoods. They have extremely high levels of well-being and access to opportunity.
The Forsaken Five Percent
High levels of human development overall characterize this majority-minority group of Californians, who enjoy longer lives, higher levels of educational attainment, and higher earnings than the typical American. Yet these suburban and ex-urban Californians have an increasingly tenuous grip on middle-class life. 38% of CA population
Struggling California can be found across the state, from the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas of the Central Valley to parts of major metro areas and the Inland Empire to swaths of Northern California. Struggling Californians work hard but find it nearly impossible to gain a foothold on security. 38% of CA population
Extremely well-educated, high-tech high-flyers living in Silicon Valley—entrepreneurs and professionals fueling, and accruing the benefits of, innovation, especially in information technology. Highly developed capabilities give these Californians unmatched freedom to pursue the goals that matter to them.
95.9
70.1 9.35
38.0 85.3 100.0 4.1 $63,106 95.9 70.1
GRADUATE OR PROFESSIONAL DEGREE (%)
SCHOOL ENROLLMENT (%)
MEDIAN EARNINGS (2009 dollars)
38.0
100.0 $63,106
7.5
20.9
100.0 $46,077
10.7
92.9 $32,686
84.3 28.2 $24,796 71.8 16.8
5.2
84.3 $24,796
80.6 45.6 $18,343 54.4 8.3
2.2
80.6 $18,343
Affluent, credentialed, and resilient, the knowledge workers living in Metro-Coastal Enclave California enjoy comparative financial comfort and security in upscale urban and suburban neighborhoods. They have extremely high levels of well-being and access to opportunity.
92.5
52.3 7.92
20.9 83.2 100.0 7.5 $46,077 92.5 52.3
80.5
15.4
High levels of human development overall characterize this majority-minority group of Californians, who enjoy longer lives, higher levels of educational attainment, and higher earnings than the typical American. Yet these suburban and ex-urban Californians have an increasingly tenuous grip on middle-class life.
84.6
31.5 5.91
10.7 80.5
92.9 15.4 $32,686 84.6 31.5
78.3
28.2
Struggling California can be found across the state, from the suburbs, exurbs, and rural areas of the Central Valley to parts of major metro areas and the Inland Empire to swaths of Northern California. Struggling Californians work hard but find it nearly impossible to gain a foothold on security.
71.8
16.8 4.17
78.3 5.2
83 Neighborhood and County Groups
The Forsaken Five Percent 2.59
T HE M EA S U R E O F A MER I CA SER I ES
AT LEAST BACHELOR’S DEGREE (%)
91 Neighborhood and County Groups
Bypassed by the digital economy, left behind in impoverished LA neighborhoods as well as in rural and urban areas in the San Joaquin Valley, these Californians face an extremely constrained range of opportunities and choices.
5% of CA population 11 Neighborhood and County Groups
4.1
AT LEAST HIGH MEDIAN SCHOOL DIPLOMA EARNINGS (2009(%) dollars)
18% of CA population 46 Neighborhood and County Groups
Struggling California 4.17
38% of CA population 83 Neighborhood and County Groups
85.3
GRADUATE LIFEOR PROFESSIONAL EXPECTANCY SCHOOL LESS THAN DEGREE AT BIRTH ENROLLMENT HIGH SCHOOL in terms of well-being. (%) (years) (%) (%)
2 Neighborhood and County Groups
Main Street California 5.91
38% of CA population 91 Neighborhood and County Groups
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Extremely well-educated, high-tech high-flyers living in Silicon Valley—entrepreneurs and professionals fueling, and accruing the benefits of, innovation, especially in information technology. Highly developed capabilities give these Californians unmatched freedom to pursue the goals that matter to1% them. of CA population
LIFE AT LEAST AT LEAST EXPECTANCY LESS THAN HIGH SCHOOL BACHELOR’S AT BIRTH SCHOOL DIPLOMA DEGREE wildly divergent HIGH realities faced by California residents (years) (%) (%) HD INDEX (%)
76.1
45.6
Bypassed by the digital economy, left behind in impoverished LA neighborhoods as well as in rural and urban areas in the San Joaquin Valley, these Californians face an extremely constrained range of opportunities and choices.
54.4
8.3 2.59
76.1 2.2
5% of CA population 11 Neighborhood and County Groups
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