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Sumas, WA

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Overview


Sumas is a very small city located in the state of Washington. With a population of 1,645 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 $82,188.00.

Occupations and Workforce

Sumas is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Sumas is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Sumas who work in management occupations (12.46%), sales jobs (10.33%), and office and administrative support (8.51%).

One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 7.53% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. 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.

Setting & Lifestyle

Sumas 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

The percentage of adults in Sumas with college degrees is slightly lower than the national average of 21.84% for all communities. 13.26% of adults in Sumas have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Sumas in 2022 was $35,777, 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 $143,108 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. 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.

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 Sumas, 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 Dutch and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 17.4% of this neighborhood's residents have Dutch ancestry and 13.5% 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.

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 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 68.9% of the neighborhoods in America. With 10.9% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 51.4% of U.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, 34.3% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.7% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in executive, management, and professional occupations (23.6%), and 11.9% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 86.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (11.1%).

Ethnicity / Ancestry

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 (20.5%). There are also a number of people of Dutch ancestry (17.4%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (13.5%), and some of the residents are also of Mexican ancestry (13.3%), along with some English ancestry residents (11.3%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (81.3%) 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 (7.3%) . 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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