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Walnut is a medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 30,065 people and eight constituent neighborhoods, Walnut is the 249th largest community in California.

Walnut home prices are not only among the most expensive in California, but Walnut real estate also consistently ranks among the most expensive in America.

Walnut is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 90.70% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Walnut is a city of professionals, sales and office workers and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Walnut who work in office and administrative support (16.35%), sales jobs (13.32%) and management occupations (11.67%).

Also of interest is that Walnut has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

In addition, Walnut is a college town. There are a lot of students in Walnut attending college, and as a result Walnut provides a number of services, amenities and opportunities geared to the needs and activities of students.

Because of many things, Walnut is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Walnut really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Walnut perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live.

One downside of living in Walnut, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 34.98 minutes every day commuting to work.

Walnut Information and Demographics

Do you like to read, write and learn? If you move to Walnut, you’ll likely find that many of your neighbors like to as well. Walnut is one of the more educated communities in America, with a full 52.33% of its adults having a college degree or even advanced degree, compared to a national average across all communities of 21.84%.

The per capita income in Walnut in 2010 was $35,205, which is upper middle income relative to California, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $140,820 for a family of four. However, Walnut contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

In addition, Walnut has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (47.82%).

The languages spoken by people in Walnut are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Walnut is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Spanish, Tagalog and Korean.