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.

Yacolt is a blue-collar town, with 45.5% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 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%).

One downside of living in Yacolt, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 41.31 minutes every day commuting to work.

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 population of Yacolt has a very low overall level of education: only 7.72% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

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.