We also wrote about the drunkest cities in California if you didn’t happen to see it. The ghost hunting team (called Official Paranormal Operations or O.P.O.) goes to a number of places according to a trailer that dropped with the announcement: a haunted piñata shop in South. If you’re measuring the locations in California where there are a high number of poor and uneducated residents, and where there are a high number of discounted shopping stores, this is an accurate list.Īdditionally, here are the least ghetto places in California: Where is this hidden jungle? It’s actually not a city, but a census designated place in Riverside County right on the banks of the Salton Sea, just south of La Quinta.

The graduation rates of residents are as low as you’ll see in the nation, and just about everyone here lives below the poverty line. Oasis might be the most ghetto place in California you’ve never heard of. Additionally, high school graduation rates are determined by looking at the total number of people who live in a city, not the current graduation rate of an area’s high schools. Hood Life: A Hip Hop Guided Tour Of Compton Pitchfork 1.25M subscribers Subscribe 4.9K 691K views 10 years ago Rapper The Game's stepfather, Hodari Sababu, gives us a guided tour through South. Meaning number of stores per person in a state. Note: For the sake of getting reliable numbers, we counted places within a city’s border, as well as within a short driving distance.Īll of these results are listed in a per capita basis. Using Yelp and Area Vibes, this is the criteria we used: We threw a lot of criteria at this one in order to get the best, most complete results possible. That left us with over 600 places in the Golden State. We started by making a list of every place in California with more than 5,000 people based on the 2013 American Community Survey. Since a ghetto is defined as a poor area, we used income levels, crime and education levels as a guide to determine where the most broke citizens of a state live.Īdditionally, the staples of inner city life include cheap and discounted retail outlets. In order to rank the most ghetto places in California, we had to determine what criteria defines a ghetto city or neighborhood. Read on below to see where your town ranked.

Using that criteria, it’s not hard to scrape the internet, run some scientific data on where ghettos might exist in a state and then put out a list.Īfter analyzing all cities with a decent amount of people in them, we came up with this list as the most ghetto places in California: “urban of or relating to (inner) city life” and “poor of or relating to the poor life.” According to the Urban Dictionary, a ghetto is defined as: How do you decide if a place is ghetto or not? You ask the internet. But where is the actual ghetto in California? There are lots of people who throw the term ‘ghetto’ around.

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