Bakersfield is a city in south central California, around the valley of the San Joaquin River. Bakersfield is a center for commercial activities, distribution, and manufacturing, and a good deal of petroleum-production and sales. There are also manufactures of refined petroleum, electronic components, and processed food those into agriculture produce crops like grapes, cotton, almonds, citrus fruits, and carrots.

Bakersfield, CA is populated with 247,057 people whose average age is 30 according to 2000 estimates. The median income of Bakersfield people ranges between ,982 and ,556. This income is earned by the educational, health, social services, and retail field workers.
Many visitors come to Bakersfield, California because of its historic restaurants. Tourists enjoy history and the good food in Luigi’s, Noriega’s, Maitia’s, Pyrenees, Woolgrower’s and other fine historic restaurants. If you’ve heard about Bakersfield sound, these are world-renowned country music brought by icons like Buck Owens and Merles Haggard.

So many celebrities were also born in this great city. People like Brock Marion, The Detroit Lions’ Detroit Tigers’ Colby Lewis, Cory Hall, Washington Redskins’, and NASCAR’s Casey Mears are a few of the celebrities that were born in Bakersfield, California.

Some institutions in the area are California State University-Bakersfield (established in 1970) and a junior college is located in the city. You can also find Cultural institutions like the Bakersfield Museum of Art and the Kern County Museum, where you find over 60 restored or recreated structures. Other sites to behold are the California Living Museum, which is comprised of a zoo, botanical garden, and the natural history museum. You are welcome to the city with strong country music roots, and the birthplace of the renowned country singer Merle Haggard.