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Winlock, WA

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Overview


Winlock is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,738 people and just one neighborhood, Winlock is the 242nd largest community in Washington.

Occupations and Workforce

Winlock is a blue-collar town, with 36.92% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Winlock is a city of service providers, transportation and shipping workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Winlock who work in food service (11.33%), teaching (11.33%), and sales jobs (9.23%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Winlock 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.

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Winlock rank slightly lower than the national average. 14.23% of adults 25 and older in Winlock have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree, while 21.84% of adults have a 4-year degree or higher in the average American community.

The per capita income in Winlock in 2018 was $25,192, which is low income relative to Washington, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $100,768 for a family of four. However, Winlock contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Winlock is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Winlock home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Winlock residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Winlock also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 22.01% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Winlock include German, English, Irish, Swedish, and Norwegian.

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

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Winlock, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more Czechoslovakian and Canadian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Czechoslovakian ancestry and 2.4% have Canadian ancestry.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Winlock are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 49.8% of the neighborhoods in America. With 27.8% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 78.9% of U.S. neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 33.5% 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 31.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.2%), and 10.0% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 87.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (10.4%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Boston's Beacon Hill blue-blood streets, Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish enclaves, Los Angeles' Persian neighborhoods. Each has its own culture derived primarily from the ancestries and culture of the residents who call these neighborhoods home. Likewise, each neighborhood in America has its own culture – some more unique than others – based on lifestyle, occupations, the types of households – and importantly – on the ethnicities and ancestries of the people who live in the neighborhood. Understanding where people came from, who their grandparents or great-grandparents were, can help you understand how a neighborhood is today.

In the neighborhood in Winlock, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.0%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (12.4%), and residents who report English roots (10.2%), and some of the residents are also of Irish ancestry (7.6%), along with some Norwegian ancestry residents (3.9%), among others.

Getting to Work

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 (36.6% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (68.3%) 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 (13.0%) and 7.6% of residents also hop out the door and walk to work for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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