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Ojai by the numbers

American Factfinder breaks down the 2000 Census by zip code. I pulled some stats for 93023.

Some interesting numbers:
- 93023 includes over 21,000 people, which would be the majority of residents in the greater Ojai Valley. The city limits of Ojai encompass about 8,000. My understanding is that sitting on the Ojai City Council requires residence within the city limits, so what we see is a city council drawn from a pool of less than 40% of the population.
- the median age is 41.6 years, significantly higher than the national average of 35.3 years. With 3,400+ over the age of 65, our percentage of seniors is significantly higher than the national average.
- Ojai is far more white than the U.S. average - 88% vs. 75%. Our percentage of American Indian residents is actually below the national average. Latinos represent over 15% of the population, a few percentage points higher than the national average.
- the fact that we have an older demographic probably contributes to the level of education. 87% of our residents over 25 have a high school diploma, and 30% have a bachelors or higher. Much higher than the national average.
- we have 337 families (6% of the population) and 1,847 individuals (8.7%) below the poverty level. While significantly below the national averages, we as a city have to recognize the disconnect between the castles on the hill overseeing residents that worry about how to afford food and diapers.

some pollution stats on the flip...

Scorecard.org monitors pollution on a community-by-community basis. Look at what was dumped into our environment in 2002. What company or agency dumped 25 tons of ammonia into our community??? [UPDATE] Heather points out that these stats are Ventura county-wide.

Posted by Tyler Suchman on March 2, 2006 12:33 PM | | | Ojai by the numbers

Comments (3)

Is this Ojai only or all of Ventura? If you use 93003 it looks the same to my casual glance - could be the stats cover the entire county. Still, I am concerned about all the pesticides that get dumped on our town and all the blow-in from the coastal communities that we get stuck with.

Comment #1 Posted by: Heather | March 2, 2006 01:50 PM

Heather - you're talking about the second part - the pollution stats from scorecard.org? I think you are right in that those are stats for the county of Ventura. I'll keep an eye out for air quality stats too, because I believe Ojai's air quality is not so great, due to the mountains trapping in pollutants.

Comment #2 Posted by: Tyler | March 2, 2006 03:14 PM

Here some interesting information that I found regarding the way that these statistics are tabulated http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2513/

Comment #3 Posted by: Brett | March 3, 2006 02:26 PM

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