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Oroville, WA
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Living in Oroville



Oroville is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,827 people and two associated neighborhoods, Oroville is the 228th largest community in Washington.

You will also find that a lot of people in Oroville work in agricultural jobs - much more than in the average community in America. This will be quite apparent if you drive around town, as much of the landscape is dedicated to farms.

Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 10.15% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 13.74 minutes getting to work every day.

Oroville is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The population of Oroville has a very low overall level of education: only 8.73% of people over 25 hold a 4-year college degree or higher.

The per capita income in Oroville in 2018 was $18,755, which is low income relative to Washington and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $75,020 for a family of four. However, Oroville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Oroville also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 32.69% of its population below the federal poverty line.

Oroville is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Oroville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Oroville residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Oroville also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 33.77% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Oroville include German, Irish, English, Scandinavian, and Italian.

Oroville also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 18.14%.

The most common language spoken in Oroville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.


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