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Wood Village, OR

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Overview


Wood Village is a very small city located in the state of Oregon. With a population of 4,775 people and just one neighborhood, Wood Village is the 96th largest community in Oregon.

Occupations and Workforce

Wood Village is a blue-collar town, with 37.45% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Wood Village is a city of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Wood Village who work in food service (16.98%), sales jobs (12.78%), and office and administrative support (6.93%).

Setting & Lifestyle

Demographics

In terms of college education, the citizens of Wood Village rank slightly lower than the national average. 15.68% of adults 25 and older in Wood Village 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 Wood Village in 2018 was $24,694, which is low income relative to Oregon, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $98,776 for a family of four. However, Wood Village contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Wood Village is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Wood Village home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. People of Hispanic or Latino origin are the most prevalent group in Wood Village, accounting for 49.34% of the city’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Wood Village residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Wood Village include German, English, Irish, Italian, and African.

In addition, Wood Village has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (27.92%).

The most common language spoken in Wood Village is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

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Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more British and Belgian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.2% of this neighborhood's residents have British ancestry and 0.7% have Belgian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 0.2% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Mon-Khmer, which is the dominant language of Cambodia, at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.4% of the neighborhoods in America.

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 Wood Village are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 40.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 41.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 90.0% of U.S. neighborhoods.

What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.

In the neighborhood, 34.5% of the working population is employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 33.5% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (16.8%), and 13.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 60.7% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (31.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is the shared learned behavior of peoples. Undeniably, different ethnicities and ancestries have different cultural traditions, and as a result, neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of one or another ethnicities or ancestries will express those cultures. It is what makes the North End in Boston so fun to visit for the Italian restaurants, bakeries, culture, and charm, and similarly, why people enjoy visiting Chinatown in San Francisco.

In the neighborhood in Wood Village, OR, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (40.2%). There are also a number of people of German ancestry (6.1%), and residents who report English roots (4.4%), and some of the residents are also of Asian ancestry (3.8%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.6%), among others. In addition, 24.4% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.

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 (36.7% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (70.8%) 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 (15.5%) . 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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