Antioch, California is at first glance, maybe, a simple, out of the way spot one wouldnt consider settling on. But with the overcrowding, the unreasonable real land prices, and the urbanization of once beautiful scenery, some might think again.
The population of Antioch, California was 90,532 in 2000. It only grew by a little over eleven percentin five years, with 51% females and 49% males totaling 100,631.
The average age of the Antioch resident is about 32, making for young, moderately progressive area where their median income of $60k+ affords some of the most affordable homes in the Northern California area (at $196,000 on the average in 2000, for example).
More than two thirds of the folks have at least a high school education, and at the same time, unemployment is extremely low (at a little over five percent).
The crime rate is also very low, with rapes and attack increasing only minimally from, respectively, fourteen and 120 in the year 1999 and twenty-three and 187 by 2002with only fifteen murders in a four year span, from 1999 to 2002. (One can infer, even, that the highest crime, assault, could be credited to anything from the occasional...