Sumas is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,665 people and just one neighborhood, Sumas is the 239th largest community in Washington. There's nothing like the smell of a brand new house, and in Sumas, you'll find that a large proportion of houses were recently built. New growth in residential real estate is an indication that people are choosing to move to Sumas, and putting down their money on brand new construction. Sumas’s real estate is, on average, some of the newest in the nation. Sumas does seem to be experiencing an influx of affluent people, because the median household income is $86,500.00.
Unlike some cities, Sumas isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Sumas are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Sumas is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sumas who work in office and administrative support (10.00%), sales jobs (9.10%), and management occupations (8.06%).
A relatively large number of people in Sumas telecommute to their jobs. Overall, about 9.47% of the workforce works from home. While this may seem like a small number, as a fraction of the total workforce it ranks among the highest in the country. 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.
The overall crime rate in Sumas is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
Being a small city, Sumas does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of people in Sumas with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 12.67% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Sumas in 2022 was $37,088, which is middle income relative to Washington, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $148,352 for a family of four. However, Sumas contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Sumas is a very ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Sumas home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Sumas residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Sumas also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.95% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Sumas include German, Dutch, Norwegian, Irish, and English.
The most common language spoken in Sumas is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Other Asian languages.
When you see a neighborhood for the first time, the most important thing is often the way it looks, like its homes and its setting. Some places look the same, but they only reveal their true character after living in them for a while because they contain a unique mix of occupational or cultural groups. This neighborhood is very unique in some important ways, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive exploration and analysis.
It used to be that most Americans lived on the farm, or otherwise made their living from the land, the forests, or the sea. With global trade and an economy increasingly based on providing services to one another, fewer people farm, fish or harvest timber now than at any time in American history. But according to NeighborhoodScout's leading analysis, the neighborhood stands apart from most American neighborhood due to the proportion of its residents still working in these fields. With 4.7% of the workforce so employed, this neighborhood has a greater concentration of such workers than 96.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 19.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 13.6% have Norwegian ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 1.6% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Native American languages at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.7% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Sumas are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70.5% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 2.8% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 71.8% of America's neighborhoods.
A neighborhood is far different if it is dominated by enlisted military personnel rather than people who earn their living by farming. It is also different if most of the neighbors are clerical support or managers. What is wonderful is the sheer diversity of neighborhoods, allowing you to find the type that fits your lifestyle and aspirations.
In the neighborhood, 29.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 27.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.4%), and 15.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 84.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (12.6%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Sumas, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (21.0%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (19.0%), and residents who report Mexican roots (15.0%), and some of the residents are also of Norwegian ancestry (13.6%), along with some English ancestry residents (10.8%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (32.1% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (78.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (8.3%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.