Insights on L.A.
Pandemic Migration Patterns, Consumer Spending, Absentee Homeowners, Being Your Own Boss
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Quote of the Week
"No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it."
Wendell Berry, American Novelist
Pandemic Patterns: CA is Seeing Fewer Entrances and More Exits
Los Angeles Data
# of exits, Q3 2021: 58,803
% change in exits since Q1 2020: 12.3%
Number of entrances, Q3 2021: 24,882
% change in entrances since Q1 2020: -39.5%
Number of net entrances, Q3 2021: -33,921
% change in net entrances since Q1 2020: 201.3%
% of people that moved anywhere, Q3 2021: 3.7%
% change in move rate since Q1 2020: -2.6%
% of movers that left the state, Q3 2021: 18.2%
% change in exit rate of movers since Q1 2020: 13.4%
% of people that left the state, Q3 2021: .7%
% change in exit rate of population since Q1 2020: 10.4%
Chart: Cal Policy Lab
Some Good News
LA needs to drive down its high unemployment rate at 7.9% and consumers are hopefully going to help us.
Job postings are up 6.3% compared to January 2020. For those jobs that require minimal education, the postings are up 46.1%. % increase slid downward by education levels.
California: As of November 14 2021, total spending by all consumers increased by 20.6% compared to January 2020.
By income:
low-income: +28%
medium-income: +22.1%
high-income: +18.9%
Los Angeles: As of November 14 2021, total spending by all consumers increased by 18.8% compared to January 2020.
By category:
Retail: +36.3%
Grocery: +25.4%
Ent. & Rec: -16.9%
Absentee Home Owners
Almost a half-million housing units are vacant, owned by people who live elsewhere, according to a Social Explorer analysis of 2015-19 American Community Survey data.
Data: Among 3,748 U.S. cities with more than 500 housing units, more than 433,000 of the 8.9 million homes have absentee owners.
Location, location, location: the largest numbers are found in some of the nation’s most expensive cities. New York had 35,238 vacant housing units with owners living elsewhere – 10.8 percent of its total stock of 327,194 homes. Los Angeles had 9,139 vacant homes, almost 8.5 percent of the total. San Diego (14.8 percent), North Myrtle Beach, S.C. (23.8 percent), and Houston (4.2 percent) rounded out the top five places for the number of absentee owners.
Chart: Use Social Explorer’s cutting-edge, flexible mapping and reporting tools to see how many homes in your city are kept by absentee owners.
Angelenos Spend Big on Entertainment
The Big Apple may be the cultural capital of the U.S., but a Social Explorer analysis of data provided by Easy Analytic Software Inc. finds Tinseltown spends three times more on entertainment.
Data: Los Angeles County residents spent almost $11.3 billion on entertainment in 2020; New York, meanwhile, dropped only $2.78 billion, ranking 10th in the nation.
Being Your Own Boss
More than 10 million U.S. households reported that they were their own boss, either part or all of the time. The largest share of self-employed Americans lived in metro and micro areas that would become Meccas for remote workers during the pandemic.
Data: Roughly 1 in 9 U.S. households reported some form of self-employment income in 2019. 16.03% of LA County's 3,316,795 households report self-employed income.
Community Leadership
EnCorps continues its dedication to promoting equitable representation in STEM teaching.
One of EnCorps’ fundamental pillars since our inception has been to challenge current inequities in our education system by connecting diverse student and school backgrounds with equally diverse cohorts of STEM teachers.
We want students across the US to be able to look up to their STEM teacher and feel confident and supported enough to pursue work or higher education in STEM, so that they, too, can be just like their teachers. Equity is our core value and this shines through with our recruitment highlights for 2021.
EnCorps is proud to share that a record-breaking 50% of our educators of color were recruited so far in FY22, thus resulting in a current majority 57% of EnCorps educators identifying as educators of color. In addition, we’re happy to report that 10% of our educators identifying as Latinx were recruited so far this year, sparking our excitement to meet even more potentially amazing educators from underrepresented backgrounds in STEM.