The majority of census tracts in the Central Coast region are majority white, except for a few areas with Latinx majorities across the region: Watsonville and the Salinas Valley, much of Santa Maria and the smaller communities west of the city, Oxnard, and northern Ventura County. [...] A substantial proportion of jobs in the Central Coast region fulfill three core pillars of the local economy: grow, distribute, and sell produce; operate the tourism industry along the coast and in wine-growing regions; and provide core services and goods to the region’s residents. [...] California Jobs First | Equity Indicators for the Central Coast Region 40 Readiness How prepared are the region’s residents Occupations Projected to Add the Most Workers of Color, by for jobs of the future? Race/Ethnicity, Monterey, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties, 2020- 2030 Few of the occupations projected to add the most workers of color are good jobs. [...] The 2016-2020 files are from are based on samples, they are subject to a While the geography of the IPUMS microdata the ACS, and they cover only about 1 percent margin of error and should be regarded as generally poses a challenge for the creation of of the US population each. [...] Each year of the data has a population and housing characteristics, the particular lowest level of geography associated use of the microdata samples allows for the with the individuals included, known as the California Jobs First | Equity Indicators for the Central Coast Region 51 Data and Methods Good Jobs Analysis The analysis presented here draws from two persons identifying as Hispanic or Lati.
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