Outlook is a tiny town located in the state of Washington. With a population of 317 people and just one neighborhood, Outlook is the 312th largest community in Washington.
When you are in Outlook, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 44.87% of Outlook’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Outlook is a town of transportation and shipping workers, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Outlook who work in office and administrative support (20.15%), teaching (17.87%), and maintenance occupations (6.46%).
Residents will find that the town is relatively quiet. This is because it is not over-populated, and it has fewer college students, renters, and young children - all of whom can be noisy at times. So, if you're looking for a relatively peaceful place to live, Outlook is worth considering.
Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 15.76 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small town, Outlook does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The population of Outlook overall has a level of education that is slightly above the US average for all US cities and towns of 21.84%. Of adults 25 and older in Outlook, 24.10% have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Outlook in 2022 was $24,544, 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 $98,176 for a family of four.
Outlook is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Outlook 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 Outlook, accounting for 100.00% of the town’s residents (people of Hispanic or Latino origin can be of any race). The greatest number of Outlook residents report their race to be Native Hawaiian. Important ancestries of people in Outlook include Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, West Indian, U.S. Virgin Islander, and Trinidadian and Tobagonian.
In addition, Outlook has a lot of people living here who were born outside of the US (43.53%).
The most common language spoken in Outlook is Spanish. Other important languages spoken here include English and Polish.
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.
We Americans love our cars. Not only are they a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of our neighborhoods and the distances between where we live, work, shop, and go to school, but we also fancy them. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis shows that the neighborhood has a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love automobiles. NeighborhoodScout's Analysis reveals that 37.5% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 97.3% of the neighborhoods in the nation.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Dutch and Mexican ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 5.7% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 75.2% have Mexican ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 63.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Spanish at home. This is a higher percentage than 96.3% of all U.S. neighborhoods.
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 Outlook are low income, making it among the lowest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 86.4% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 46.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 92.7% 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, 40.3% 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 28.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (22.7%), and 5.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is Spanish, spoken by 63.3% of households. Some people also speak English (36.7%).
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 Outlook, WA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (75.2%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (7.7%), and residents who report Dutch roots (5.7%), and some of the residents are also of German ancestry (5.4%), along with some Italian ancestry residents (4.1%), among others. In addition, 28.3% 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 (44.5% of working residents), one of the shortest commutes across America.
Here most residents (80.9%) 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 (12.6%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.