About Yacolt

Yacolt is a very small town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,098 people and just one neighborhood, Yacolt is the 240th largest community in Washington.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Yacolt is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 45.5% of the Yacolt workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Yacolt is a town of construction workers and builders, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Yacolt who work in sales jobs (10.11%), office and administrative support jobs (9.31%), and food service (5.85%).

In Yacolt, however, the average commute to work is quite long. On average, people spend 41.31 minutes each day getting to work, which is significantly higher than the national average.

Yacolt is a small town, and as is often the case with smaller towns, the population isn't large or dense enough to support much in the way of a public transportation system. In fact, there are many rural roads around Yacolt, which makes walking or biking to and from work a bit difficult. This makes for a very car-oriented town: 98.07% of residents commute to work by private automobile, and people often drive out of town for work, shopping, and other activities.

Being a small town, Yacolt does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Yacolt Information and Demographics

The citizens of Yacolt have a very low rate of college education: just 7.72% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, compared to a national average of 14.96% for all cities.

The per capita income in Yacolt in 2000 was $12,529, which is low income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $50,116 for a family of four.

The people who call Yacolt home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Yacolt is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Yacolt include German, English, Norwegian, Irish, Russian, Finnish, Polish, French, and Italian.

The most common language spoken in Yacolt is English. Some people also speak Russian.