Mount Angel is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 3,429 people and just one neighborhood, Mount Angel is the 111th largest community in Oregon.
Unlike some cities, Mount Angel isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Mount Angel are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Mount Angel is a city of managers, service providers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Mount Angel who work in management occupations (26.23%), farm management occupations (9.06%), and sales jobs (7.71%).
Mount Angel 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 education level of Mount Angel citizens, measured as those with bachelor's degrees or advanced degrees, is similar to the national average for all American cities and towns. 19.36% of adults 25 and older in Mount Angel have a college degree.
The per capita income in Mount Angel in 2022 was $28,738, which is lower middle income relative to Oregon and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $114,952 for a family of four. However, Mount Angel contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Mount Angel is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Mount Angel home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Mount Angel residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Mount Angel also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 39.88% of the city’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Mount Angel include German, Irish, English, Russian, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Mount Angel is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and German/Yiddish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
Each year, fewer and fewer Americans make their living as farmers, foresters, or fishers. But the neighborhood truly stands out among U.S. neighborhoods. According to exclusive NeighborhoodScout analysis, this neighborhood has a greater proportion of farmers, foresters, or fishers than 98.7% of all American neighborhoods. This is truly a unique cultural characteristic of this neighborhood.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Russian and Portuguese ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.0% of this neighborhood's residents have Russian ancestry and 2.3% have Portuguese ancestry.
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 Mount Angel are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 41.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.3% 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 70.4% of America'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, 48.3% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations, with 17.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (13.2%), and 11.9% in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 72.1% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (23.9%).
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 Mount Angel, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (30.1%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (23.6%), and residents who report Irish roots (10.6%), and some of the residents are also of English ancestry (8.4%), along with some Russian ancestry residents (5.0%), among others. In addition, 12.1% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
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 under 15 minutes commuting one-way to work (33.8% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (87.2%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.